The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture on March 31 projected area planted to all-wheat for harvest in 2025 at 45.4 million acres, down 2% from the year before. If realized, this represents the second lowest all wheat planted area since records began in 1919. The 2025 winter wheat planted area, at 33.3 million acres, is down 2% from the previous estimate and down less than 1% from last year.
Of this total, about 23.6 million acres are Hard Red Winter, 6.09 million acres are Soft Red Winter, and 3.66 million acres are White Winter. Area expected to be planted to other spring wheat for 2025 is estimated at 10.0 million acres, down 6 percent from 2024 estimate. Of this total, about 9.40 million acres are Hard Red Spring wheat. Durum planted area for 2025 is expected to total 2.02 million acres, down 2 percent from the previous year.
The forecast, published in the annual Prospective Plantings report, was below the range of analysts’ pre-report trade expectations that averaged 46.475 million acres. The report offered the first survey-based estimate of farmers’ 2025 planting intentions for all major crops and was based on a survey of 73,700 farmers during the first two weeks of March.