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New data show organic accounts for
minuscule share of grain production
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were only 14% smaller than the 63.7
need for detailed industry data. bus garnered across the entire crop.
The 2007 Census of Agriculture re- Yields for organic soybeans were
ported more than 20,000 farms en- 26.3 bus per acre, down 34% from
gaged in organic production and the crop average of 39.7.
Further breaking down organic
over $1.7 billion in sales in the U.S.
The 2008 Organic Production Sur- wheat data, the leading states as
vey collected additional informa- measured by organic wheat production on organic farming for the 2008 tion did not match up with the largest producing states overall.
calendar year."
Production of organic soybeans in
2008 totaled 2,578,495 bus, or 0.09% Inter-mountain with large share
A band of states centered in the
of the total crop. Growers produced
one bushel of organic soybeans for inter-mountain region accounted
each 1,150 bushels of conventionally grown soybeans.
Yield comparisons
Oats had the greatest share
bus per acre
of organic production in 2008.
At 2,239,607 bus, organic oats
Organic Conventional Difference
equated to 2.5% of the U.S.
Corn
109.7
153.9
-29%
crop. Rice produced organiOats
54.6
63.7
-14%
cally in 2008 totaled 1,086,488
Soybeans
26.3
39.7
-34%
cwts, or 0.53% of the crop.
Other spring
26.8
40.5
-34%
Breaking down the wheat
Winter
28.4
47.1
-40%
figures further, organic winter wheat production was
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture
5,753,853 bus, or 0.31% of total winter wheat production.
Organic other spring wheat produc- for a large share of organic wheat
tion was 2,495,365 bus, or 0.46% of production in 2008.
Wyoming was the largest prototal production.
Yields were consistently lower ducer of organic winter wheat, at
for organically produced grains. 727,993 bus, or 19% of the state's toOrganic corn yields in 2008 were tal wheat production. Utah ranked
109.7 bus per acre, 29% beneath the second, at 588,842 bus, or 12%. The
third largest producer of organic
winter wheat was Nebraska, at
Total certified organic
566,882 bus, or 0.77% of total winter
wheat production.
production
Among producers of soft winter
Share of total
wheat, Michigan ranked first in probus
production
duction at 265,759 bus, or 0.5% of
Corn
15,702,177
0.13%
the state's total crop.
Production data from Kansas, the
Oats
2,239,607
2.51%
nation's largest winter wheat proRice (cwts)
1,086,488
0.53%
ducer, were not published because
Soybeans
2,578,495
0.09%
of disclosure issues. The state had
Other spring
2,495,365
0.46%
46 farms that produced certified
Winter
5,753,853
0.31%
organic wheat, or about 5% of the
All wheat
8,271,251
0.33%
total of 861 farms nationwide that
harvested organic winter wheat.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture
In spring wheat other than durum, North Dakota was the larg153.9 bus harvested overall. Winter est producer of organic spring
wheat yields were 28.4 bus per acre, wheat. At 440,492 bus, the North
40% lower than the 47.1 bu average Dakota crop equated to 0.18% of
the state's total production of 246.4
yield.
Other spring wheat organic yields million bus.
Ranking second, and not too far
were 26.8 bus per acre, 34% smaller
than the average of 40.5 bus for the behind North Dakota, in organic
spring wheat production was Minspring wheat crop.
Oats yields of 54.6 bus per acre nesota at 398,290 bus, or 0.4% of
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