TREND OF WHEAT PRODUCTION 



Wheat production in Montana last year 

 was the largest in the history of the state 

 by nearly thirty million bushels, surpass- 

 ing the previous record crop of 52,714,- 

 000 bushels of 1922. Although the trend 

 of wheat yield per acre in the state, when 

 charted, presents a somewhat broken line, 

 the trend has been upward since 1920. 

 Before 1910 yields were fairly stable 

 from year to year, due to the fact that 

 the bulk of the acreage was irrigated. 

 Since then with the great expansion in 

 dry land wheat acreage the yield trend 

 has been uneven, depending more upon 

 the character of the season. 



United States wheat production in 1927 

 was the highest since 1919 standing at 

 just a little above the level of recent 

 years. 



Further expansion of wheat acreage is 

 expected in many sections of the state. 



MONTANA WHEAT YIELDS HIGH 



It was largely because of the high yields per acre of both winter and spring 

 wheat in 1927 that Montana farmers were able to call the past crop season the 

 biggest one in their history. S'pring wheat yielded at the rate of over 60 per cent 

 greater in Montana than in North Dakota, the only spring' wheat state that pro- 

 duced more wheat than did Montana in 1927. Of the twelve winter wheat states 

 which exceeded Montana's winter wheat production last year only two, Washing- 

 ton and Oregon, exceeded Montana's crop in yield per acre. 



Comparative yields per acre of winter and spring wheat for important wheat 

 states are shown in the accompanying table. 



YIELDS PER ACRE OF WHEAT 



STATE Spring Wheat Winter Wheat 



Montana 20.6 22.0 



North Dakota 12.7 ....* 



South Dakota 14.8 18.0 



Minnesota 10.9 21.4 



Kansas 4.4 11.2 



Practically no winter wheat grown in North Dakota. 



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