Wheat Production
How much land in Washington is planted to wheat?
A bit less than 2.3 million football fields of wheat were harvested in Eastern Washington in 2020, up from 2.2 million football fields in 2019. The playing surface of a football field is about an acre.
Wheat Production - 2020
All wheat production was 165.6 million bushels, up nearly 17 percent from 2019 when 143.2 million bushels was harvested. The average winter wheat yield was 76 bushels an acre. The average spring wheat yield was 61 bushels an acre. Winter wheat was harvested from 1.75 million acres with 535,000 acres of spring wheat production harvested.