Wheat in the U.S. - statistics & facts

U.S. wheat industry

In the United States, about 46.7 million acres of wheat were planted, and about 37.12 million acres were harvested in 2021. Compared to the past two decades, total U.S. wheat area plantation and harvest were both at their lowest in 2020 and increased slightly in 2021. Production was, however, lower in 2021: close to 1.65 billion bushels’ worth of wheat were produced in the United States in 2021. A bushel is a unit of volume equal to eight dry gallons and was mainly used for agricultural purposes.

Leading producers

In 2021, the leading wheat-producing U.S. state was Kansas, which cultivated an estimated 364 million bushels of wheat. In 2020, North Dakota was the leading producer and had a wheat production value of about 1.42 billion U.S. dollars.

U.S. wheat trade

A great deal of the wheat produced in the United States is exported to other countries around the globe: during 2019, the country exported over 27 million metric tons worth of wheat. The United States’ top wheat importers in 2019 were Mexico, the Philippines, and Japan, in that order.

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