The final 2010 production for Nebraska wheat totaled 64.1 million bushels, 17% below last year's crop and 13% below two years ago, according to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, Nebraska Field Office.

Area harvested for grain, at 1.49 million acres, is 110,000 acres less than last year. Average yield in Nebraska, at 43 bushels per acre, is 5 bushels below last year and 1 bushel below 2008.

Oat production in Nebraska during 2010 totaled 1.7 million bushels, 18% below the 2009 crop and the smallest crop since 1870. Planted acreage, at 90,000, is 10% below 2009. Area harvested for grain, at 25,000, is 5,000 below the level set a year ago. Yield, at 68 bushels per acre, is down 1 bushel from last year.