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Oat production is expected to total 3.96 million bushels, down 10 percent from 2003. Yields are forecast at a record high 72 bushels per acre, up 9 bushels from a year ago. Winter wheat production is forecast at 4.94 million bushels, down 22 percent from the 6.36 million bushels produced in 2003. Yields are forecast at 52 bushels per acre, down 1 bushel from last year. The first yield and production forecast for corn, soybeans, dry beans, and hay will be released on August 12.

The nation's winter wheat production is forecast at 1.47 billion bushels, 14 percent below last year. ` Area for grain harvest is forecast at 34.8 million acres, down 5 percent from 2003. Yields are expected to average 42.2 bushels per acre, down 4.5 bushels from a year ago. U.S. producers expect to harvest 61.6 million acres for dry hay in 2004, 3 percent below 2003. Alfalfa and alfalfa mixtures are expected to total 22.2 million acres, down 6 percent from last year. All other hay is estimated at 39.4 million acres, down 1 percent from a year earlier. Dry bean harvested acreage is expected from 1.33 million acres, 2 percent below last year.

New York's peach crop is forecast at 11.0 million pounds, down 15 percent from the 13.0 million pounds produced last year. U.S. peach production, excluding California Clingstones that are mostly canned, is expected to total 1.46 billion pounds, 1 percent more than last year.

U.S. area planted to fall potatoes this year is estimated at 1.04 million acres, down 6 percent from last year. Harvest is expected from 1.02 million acres, down 6 percent from a year ago.

Breeding inventory, at 5.91 million head, was down 2 percent from June 1, 2003, and down slightly from last quarter. Market hog inventory, at 54.2 million head, was 1 percent above both last year and last quarter.

The March - May 2004 U.S. pig crop, at 25.5 million head, was down less than one-half of one percent from 2003, and down 2 percent from 2002. Sows farrowing during this period totaled 2.86 million head, 1 percent below last year. The sows farrowed during this quarter represented 48 percent of the breeding herd.

The average pigs saved per litter was 8.93 for the March-May 2004 period, compared to 8.88 last year. Pigs saved per litter by size of operation ranged from 7.70 for operations with 1-99 hogs to 9.00 for operations with more than 5,000 hogs and pigs.

U.S. hog producers intend to have 2.87 million sows farrow during the June-August 2004 quarter, 1 percent below the actual farrowings during the same period in both 2003 and 2002. Intended farrowings for September-November 2004, at 2.84 million sows, are down slightly from the same period in 2003, but up slightly from the same period in 2002. The total number of hogs under contract, owned by operations with over 5,000 head, but raised by contractees, accounted for 38 percent of the total U.S. hog inventory, up from 35 percent last year.

Dairy farmers in the Empire State received an average of $18.70 per hundred weight of milk sold during June. This is a decrease of $1.30 from May but $6.90 above June 2003. Poultry producers received an average of 55.0 cents per dozen eggs sold, up 1.0 cent from May and unchanged from June 2003.

At the National level, the preliminary All Farm Products Index of Prices Received in June is 129, based on 1990-92=100, unchanged from the May Index, but up 22 points (21 percent) from June 2003. The Livestock and Products Index remained unchanged from May while the All Crops Index decreased 1 point (0.8 percent). Producers received higher prices for lettuce, broilers, sweet corn, and cattle. Lower prices were received for milk, soybeans, tomatoes, and grapes. The seasonal change in the mix of commodities farmers sell, based on the past 3-year average, also affects the overall index. Increased average marketings of wheat, grapes, hay, and cantaloupe offset decreased marketings of strawberries, oranges, sweet corn, and tomatoes.

Milk production in the 20 major states during June totaled 12.4 billion pounds, down slightly from production in these same states during June 2003. Production per cow averaged 1,603 pounds for June, up 7 pounds from June 2003. The number of cows on farms in the 20 major states was 7.74 million head, 44,000 head less than June 2003, but 19,000 head more than May 2004.

Laying flocks in the United States produced 7.50 billion eggs during May 2004, up 2 percent from the previous May. An indication of future egg supply, chicks hatched in the United States during May for the purpose of egg production totaled 38.6 million, up 3 percent from May 2003. Eggs in incubators on June 1, 2004 totaled 34.4 million, up 2 percent from previous year.