Wheat Production
How much land in Washington is planted to wheat?
About 2.2 million football fields of wheat were harvested in Eastern Washington in 2021, down slightly from 2.3 million football fields in 2020. The playing surface of a football field is about an acre.
Wheat Production - 2021
All wheat production was 87.1 million bushels, down 47 percent from 2020 when 165.6 million bushels was harvested. The average winter wheat yield was 42 bushels an acre. The average spring wheat yield was 30 bushels an acre. Winter wheat was harvested from 1.69 million acres with 540,000 acres of spring wheat production harvested.