The latest report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) forecast winter wheat production in 2015 at 1,471,802,000 bushels, up 7 percent from 2014, reports World Grain.com.
The forecast was the first official USDA projection of the season and was above the average of pre-report trade forecasts, which was 1.457 billion bushels.
The greatest production gains are forecast for Texas and Oklahoma, where precipitation is vastly improved from a year ago, when drought ruled, abandonment was heavy and yields were poor.
The Texas crop is forecast at 131,250,000 bushels, up 94 percent from 67,500,000 bushels in 2014, and the Oklahoma crop was forecast at 118,900,000 bushels, up 150 percent from 47,600,000 bushels in 2014.