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

Released: December 11, 2001
Volume 01, No. 12

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INCLUDED
IN THIS
ISSUE

DRY BEAN PRODUCTION

FARM
MARKETINGS


KANSAS DRY BEAN PRODUCTION DOWN

Kansas dry bean production is estimated at 259,000 hundredweight (cwt.), down 10 percent from the 2000 crop. Yield is estimated at 1,850 pounds per acre, 40 pounds above the 1,810 pounds per acre last year. Harvested acres, at 14,000, are down from the 16,000 acres harvested in 2000.

United States production of dry beans is estimated at 19.6 million cwt. for 2001, down 26 percent from 2000. This is the lowest dry bean production since 1988, when production was 19.3 million hundredweight. Area for harvest is estimated at 1.25 million acres, 5 percent below the previous estimate and 22 percent below a year ago. The average yield is estimated at 1,568 pounds per acre, down 75 pounds from last year.

Table 1 -- KANSAS DRY BEAN PRODUCTION, DECEMBER 1, 2001
Class
Planted Harvested Yield Per Acre Production
2000 2001 2000 2001 2000 2001 2000 2001
1,000 Acres
Pounds 1,000 Cwt.
Pinto 17.3 13.5 15 .5 12.6 1,800 1,860 279 234
Other 1/ 0.7 1.5 0 .5 1.4 2,000 1,790 10 25
    All Dry Beans 18.0 15.0 16 .0 14.0 1,810 1,850 289 259
1/ All Great Northern and other categories included in "Other" class.

Table 2-- FARM MARKETINGS OF KANSAS WHEAT, 2000-2001 & 5-YEAR AVERAGE 1/

PERCENT OF SALES BY MONTHS
Marketing
Year 		June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May
PERCENT
2000-01
 16 19 15 6 8 4 5 10 3 3 8 3
5-Year Average
 		10 29 11 6 5 4 7 8 5 6 5 4
1/ Five-year average may not add to 100 percent due to rounding.

Table 3-- FARM MARKETINGS OF KANSAS ROW CROPS, 2000-2001 & 5-YEAR AVERAGE 1/

PERCENT OF SALES BY MONTHS
Crop By
Marketing
Year 		Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug.
PERCENT
SORGHUM
2000-2001 8 15 11 22 10 4 7 5 4 5 2 7
5-Year Average 9 19 14 16 13 6 6 3 4 3 2 4
CORN
2000-2001 18 22 12 11 16 3 3 3 2 2 5 3
5-Year Average 10 20 13 13 15 6 6 3 3 3 3 5
SOYBEANS
2000-2001 9 18 9 12 14 6 6 4 7 6 4 5
5-Year Average 5 23 14 10 13 6 7 5 4 4 3 4
1/ Five-year average may not add to 100 percent due to rounding.

Dave Ranek & Mike Miller, Agricultural Statisticians
Eldon J. Thiessen, State Statistician
Eddie Wells, Deputy State Statistician

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