Kentucky farmers expect to harvest 24.3 million bushels of winter wheat during 2018, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service May Crop Production report.

The expected crop for 2018 would be up 2 percent from the previous year. Farmers seeded 440,000 acres last fall, with 300,000 acres to be harvested for grain. Based on crop conditions as of May 1 and assuming a normal growing season, farmers expect a yield of 81 bushels per acre, up four bushels from 2017. Acres for other uses totaled 140,000 acres and will be used as cover crop for tobacco or cut as silage or hay.