US winter wheat plantings up from 2024, USDA says

In Washington DC, World Grain reported that US farmers last fall planted more acres to winter wheat for harvest in 2025 than they did for 2024, but fewer than 2023 and just shy of the five-year average acreage, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Seedings of winter wheat for harvest this year were estimated at 34.115 million acres in data recently issued by the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. The acreage estimate was up from 2024 winter wheat plantings and exceeded analysts’ expectations that averaged 33.4 million acres issued ahead of the annual Winter Wheat and Canola Seedings report.

Throughout much of the planting season, seeding progressed at a similar pace to the five-year average and reached 97% completion by November 24, according to the report. Seedings of 34.115 million acres were up 725,000 acres, or 2.2%, from 33.39 million acres in 2024 but were down 7% from 36.699 million acres in 2023, which was the peak planted area in the current decade, and down 27% from 46.781 million acres in 2008, the high mark in the current century.

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