Hay growers expect to harvest 59.8 million acres of hay in 1998, down 2 percent from the 60.8 million acres harvested the previous year. Sunflower planted area is estimated at 3.42 million acres, up 16 percent from last year. Harvested area is estimated at 3.31 million acres, also up 16 percent. Non-oil type varieties were planted on 582,000 acres, down 3 percent from the previous year. Dry bean planted acreage is estimated at 2.05 million acres this year, up 11 percent from both last year and two years ago.
Harvested area is for grain.
No estimate currently available. Kansas corn stocks in all locations, at 88.2 million bushels, were 20 percent higher than last June. Off- farm stocks were 58.2 million bushels, which accounted for 66 percent of the total corn stocks. On-farm stocks at 30.0 million bushels, were down 1.0 million bushels from last June. Off-farm oat stocks were 1.14 million bushels.