Released: December 10, 1999
Volume 99, No. 12

Kansas dry bean production is estimated at 387,000 hundredweight (cwt.), up 7,000 cwt. from the 1998 crop. Yield is estimated at 1,850 pounds per acre, 150 pounds below the 2,000 pounds per acre last year. Harvested acres, at 20,900, are up from 19,000 acres harvested in 1998 and 20,000 acres harvested in 1997.

United States production of dry beans is estimated at 31.0 million cwt. for 1999, 6 percent above 1998 and 11 percent above two years ago. Area for harvest is estimated at 1.92 million acres, up 12 percent from 1998 and 10 percent above 1996. The average yield, at 1,615 pounds per acre, dropped 80 pounds from 1998.

Table 1 -- KANSAS DRY BEAN PRODUCTION, DECEMBER 1, 1999
Class	Planted		Harvested		Yield Per Acre		Production
	1998	1999	1998	1999	1998	1999	1998	1999
	1,000 Acres				Pounds		1,000 Cwt.
Pinto	18.5	16.5	17 .7	15.8	2,000	1,850	354	292
Other 1/	1.5	5.5	1 .3	5.1	2,000	1,860	26	95
All Dry Beans	20.0	22.0	19 .0	20.9	2,000	1,850	380	387
1/ All Great Northern and other categories included in "Other" class.

Table 2-- FARM MARKETINGS OF KANSAS WHEAT, 1998-99 & 5-YEAR AVERAGE 1/

Table 3-- FARM MARKETINGS OF KANSAS ROW CROPS, 1998-99 & 5-YEAR AVERAGE 1/

Doug Hartwig & Deonne McCray, Agricultural Statisticians
Eldon J. Thiessen, State Statistician
Eddie Wells, Deputy State Statistician

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