Winter wheat production in Colorado, based on conditions as of June 1, 2022, is forecast at 44.80 million bushels, according to the June 1 Agricultural Yield Survey conducted by the Mountain Regional Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA. This forecast is down 10 percent from the May 1 forecast and 36 percent below the 69.56 million bushel crop produced last year. Estimated acreage for harvest, at 1.60 million acres, is unchanged from May 1 and 280,000 acres less than the 1.88 million acres harvested in 2021. As of June 1, the average yield is forecast at 28.0 bushels per acre, 3.0 bushels per acre below the May 1 forecast and 9.0 bushels per acre below last year’s final yield.

As of May 29, Colorado's winter wheat crop condition was rated 27 percent very poor, 20 percent poor, 35 percent fair, 17 percent good, and 1 percent excellent, compared with 4 percent very poor, 11 percent poor, 35 percent fair, 41 percent good, and 9 percent excellent last year.