Tidbits, Wheat, 45Z, U.S. Exports 5/17/25
- Wright team
- May 17
- 5 min read
Highlights
The 2025 Hard Red Winter Wheat Tour hosted by the Wheat Quality Council wrapped up yesterday with scouts predicting Kansas will harvest 338.5 million bushels of wheat this year. Of the last five years, only in 2021 did Kansas produce more wheat than it will this year; 364 million bushels in 2021. Last year, Kansas produced 307 million bushels. The other three years (2020, 2022, 2023) were all less than 300 million bushels with the worst being 201.3 million bushels in 2023. The Texas wheat harvest is off to a slow start due to rain.
Brazil’s Ag Ministry confirmed the country’s first outbreak of bird flu on a commercial farm near the city of Montenegro, in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. China suspended purchases of chicken from Brazil.
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