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KANSAS AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
Kansas Department of Agriculture
PO Box 3534
Topeka, KS 66601-3534
Phone: 785-233-2230

Released: April 4, 2000
Volume 00, No. 4

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INCLUDED
IN
THIS ISSUE:

PROSPECTIVE
PLANTINGS

GRAIN
STOCKS


PROSPECTIVE PLANTINGS

Kansas growers expect to plant 19.3 million acres to the four major crops (wheat, sorghum, corn, and soybeans), down 2 percent from 1999, according to Kansas Agricultural Statistics. Wheat seeded in the fall of 1999 totaled 9.80 million acres, unchanged from the December forecast but down 2 percent from the previous year.

Sorghum acreage expected to be planted, at 3.40 million acres, is down 6 percent from a year ago. Corn planting intentions totaled 3.30 million, up 5 percent from the 1999 acreage. Soybean planted acreage is expected to be
2.80 million acres, down 2 percent from last year. Oat seedings are expected to be down 8 percent from 1999 at 110,000 acres. Barley seedings, at 5,000 acres, are down from the 16,000 acres planted in 1999.

Sunflower acreage to be planted, at 270,000 acres, is down 4 percent from last year. Dry beans, at 20,000 acres, are down 9 percent from the previous year. All hay for harvest, at 2.70 million acres, is unchanged from 1999. Cotton is expected to be planted on 36,000 acres, up 3,000 acres from last year.

Table 1-- PROSPECTIVE PLANTINGS - MARCH 1, 2000
Crop Acreage Planted or to be Planted
Kansas United States
1999 Prospective
2000 		2000 as %
of 1999 		1999 Prospective
2000 		2000 as %
of 1999
1,000 Acres Percent 1,000 Acres Percent
Wheat, All 10,000 9,800 98 62,814 61,664 98
    Winter 1/ 10,000 9,800 98 43,431 43,245 100
    Durum - - - 4,035 3,610 89
    Other Spring - - - 15,348 14,809 96
Sorghum, All 3,600 3,400 94 9,288 8,979 97
Corn, All 3,150 3,300 105 77,431 77,881 101
Soybeans 2,850 2,800 98 73,780 74,871 101
Oats 120 110 92 4,670 4,351 93
Barley 16 5 31 5,223 5,733 110
All Hay 2/ 2,700 2,700 100 63,160 63,052 100
Sunflowers 280 270 96 3,553 3,047 86
Beans, Dry Edible 22 .0 20 .0 91 2,023 .0 1,836 .7 91
Cotton 33 .0 36 .0 109 14,855 .0 15,558 .0 105
1/ Planted previous fall. 2/ Acreage for harvest.

U.S. PROSPECTIVE PLANTINGS

Corn growers intend to plant 77.9 million acres of corn for all purposes in 2000, up 1 percent from 1999 but down 3 percent from 1998.

Soybean producers intend to plant 74.9 million acres in 2000, up 1 percent from last year. If realized, this will be the largest planted area for soybeans on record. West Virginia acreage estimates are included for the first time.

Sorghum plantings are expected to total 8.98 million acres, down 3 percent from last year.

The 2000 all wheat planted area is expected to total 61.7 million acres. This is down 2 percent from 1999 and the lowest level since 1973. Area planted to Durum wheat is intended to decrease to 3.61 million acres, down 11 percent from 1999. The 2000 other spring wheat planted acreage is estimated at 14.8 million acres, down 4 percent from last year. If realized, this will be the smallest area since 1988. Of the total, about 13.8 million acres are Hard Red Spring wheat.

All cotton plantings for 2000 are expected to total 15.6 million acres, 5 percent above last year. If realized, this would be the largest acreage since 1995 and the second largest since 1962. Upland acreage is expected to total 15.3 million acres, up 5 percent from 1999. All seventeen Upland cotton producing states intend to increase acreage from last year. Growers intend to decrease their plantings of American-Pima cotton to 217,000 acres, down 25 percent from 1999. All American-Pima cotton producing states intend to decrease acreage from last year.

GRAIN STOCKS

Kansas wheat stocks in all positions totaled 230.6 million bushels on March 1, down 19 percent from December 1999 but up 2 percent from last March. Wheat stored in off-farm locations (mills, elevators, warehouses, and processors) totaled 205.6 million bushels and accounted for 89 percent of the total. On-farm stocks totaled 25.0 million bushels, compared with 30.0 million bushels last March.

Sorghum grain in all positions totaled 103.3 million bushels, down 40 percent from December 1999 and slightly below the level a year ago. Off-farm stocks accounted for 73.3 million bushels and on-farm stocks 30.0 million bushels.

Kansas corn stocks in all locations, at 182.8 million bushels, were down 32 percent from December and 6 percent below last March's stocks. Off-farm stocks were 123.8 million bushels, which accounted for 68 percent of the total corn stocks. On-farm stocks, at 59.0 million bushels, were down 2 percent from the 1999 March stocks.

Off-farm oat stocks totaled 613,000 bushels, down 28 percent from December and 47 percent below March 1999. On-farm stocks are no longer published separately for Kansas.

Kansas soybeans in all locations totaled 44.5 million bushels, down 34 percent from December but up 6 percent from the 1999 March stocks. Off-farm stocks, at 29.5 million bushels, were up 14 percent from last year and accounted for 66 percent of the total soybean stocks. On-farm stocks, at 15.0 million bushels, were down 6 percent from last year.


U.S. GRAIN STOCKS

Corn stocks in all positions on March 1, 2000, totaled 5.61 billion bushels, down 2 percent from March 1, 1999. Of the total stocks, 3.30 billion bushels were stored on farms, down 8 percent from a year ago. Off-farm stocks, at 2.31 billion bushels, were up 9 percent from a year ago.

All wheat stocks March 1, 2000 totaled 1.41 billion bushels in all positions, down 3 percent from a year ago. On-farm stocks are estimated at 423 million bushels, down 10 percent from last year. Off-farm stocks, at 989 million bushels, are up 1 percent from a year ago.

Soybeans stored in all positions on March 1, 2000, totaled 1.40 billion bushels, down 4 percent from March 1, 1999. On- farm stocks, at 730 million bushels, were down 10 percent from the same period a year ago. Off-farm stocks, at 667 million bushels, were 4 percent higher than March 1, 1999.

Barley stocks in all positions on March 1, 2000, are estimated at 170.2 million bushels, 15 percent below last year.

Oats stored in all positions on March 1, 2000, totaled 101 million bushels, 10 percent below the stocks on March 1, 1999.

Grain sorghum stored in all positions on March 1, 2000 totaled 225.1 million bushels, up 1 percent from March 1, 1999.


Table 2-- STOCKS OF GRAIN - MARCH 1, 2000, WITH COMPARISONS
Grain Position Kansas United States
Mar. 1,
1999 		Dec. 1,
1999 		Mar. 1,
2000 		Mar. 1,
1999 		Dec. 1,
1999 		Mar. 1,
2000
1,000 Bushels
All Wheat On Farms 30,000 36,000 25,000 471,220 648,800 423,180
Off Farms 1/ 196,800 248,868 205,645 979,191 1,236,811 989,201
    TOTAL 226,800 284,868 230,645 1,450,411 1,885,611 1,412,381
Sorghum Grain On Farms 33,000 50,000 30,000 60,900 89,300 51,700
Off Farms 1/ 70,727 121,557 73,309 161,536 259,137 173,368
    TOTAL 103,727 171,557 103,309 222,436 348,437 225,068
Corn On Farms 60,000 105,000 59,000 3,570,000 5,180,000 3,300,000
Off Farms 1/ 134,595 163,103 123,755 2,128,428 2,844,701 2,305,529
    TOTAL 194,595 268,103 182,755 5,698,428 8,024,701 5,605,529
Oats On Farms * * * 61,700 82,100 52,900
Off Farms 1/ 1,148 853 613 50,850 53,872 48,523
    TOTAL * * * 112,550 135,972 101,423
Barley On Farms * * * 86,900 109,500 59,300
Off Farms 1/ 49 34 * 113,808 119,721 110,883
    TOTAL * * * 200,708 229,221 170,183
Soybeans On Farms 16,000 20,000 15,000 815,000 1,150,000 730,000
Off Farms 1/ 25,928 47,150 29,496 642,338 1,032,875 667,324
    TOTAL 41,928 67,150 44,496 1,457,338 2,182,875 1,397,324
1/ Includes stocks at mills, elevators, warehouses, terminals, & processors. * On-farm stocks are no longer published separately for Kansas.

Doug Hartwig and Mike Miller, Agricultural Statisticians
Eldon J. Thiessen, State Statistician
Eddie Wells, Deputy State Statistician

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