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State Winter Wheat, Alfalfa Seedings Expected to Rise in '13
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 01/17/2013
Wisconsin producers seeded 320,000 acres of winter wheat for the 2013 crop year. This is an increase of 55,000 acres from the plantings in 2012, according to the state's agriculture department.
The agency attributes the increase of plantings to the timely harvest of row crops and excellent planting weather.
Nationally, an estimated 41.8 million acres were seeded, up 1 percent from 2012. In Wisconsin, area seeded to Alfalfa and Alfalfa mixtures was 390,000 acres in 2012, down 40,000 acres from 2011.
Across the U.S. 2.39 million acres of Alfalfa and Alfalfa mixtures were planted in 2012, an increase of 3 percent from 2011.
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