U.S.: 2025 SRW Wheat Crop Shows Good Quality and Value Despite Growing Season Challenges
The 2025 U.S. soft red winter (SRW) wheat crop shows good milling quality and strong market value despite weather challenges. Total production is estimated at 339 million bushels (9.2 MMT), slightly below 2024. SRW wheat is suitable for cookies, crackers, cake flour, and blending with harder wheat classes, offering versatility and competitive pricing.
The first detailed report released by U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) on the quality of the 2025 wheat crop focuses on the soft red winter (SRW) wheat crop. Despite environmental challenges throughout the growing season, the overall crop exhibits good milling characteristics and strong market value.
“Buyers should be satisfied with the excellent quality and competitive price of the 2025 U.S. SRW wheat crop,” said Erica Oakley, USW vice president of programs. “Processors will find a versatile crop suitable with good qualities for cookies and crackers. With functional protein and good extensibility, the crop should also be valuable in blending for baking applications.”
SRW is the third largest class of wheat grown in the United States, produced predominantly east of the Mississippi River and the South and far west as northeast Texas and southeast Kansas. This production region generally experienced a mostly dry winter, which was followed by plentiful mid-season rainfall. Although planted acreage lowered slightly in 2025, areas of higher yields helped offset the decline, resulting in comparable production levels year-over-year. For the 2025/26 marketing year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimated SRW wheat production at 339 million bushels (9.2 million metric tons), slightly below last year’s 342 million bushels (9.3 MMT).
Importers and the domestic milling and baking industries use SRW for specialty products such as cookies (biscuits), crackers, snack foods and cake flour. SRW is also a versatile wheat for blending with hard red spring (HRS) and hard red winter (HRW) wheat to lower grist cost and improve bread crumb texture or to improve the quality and appearance of a wide variety of products.
For this year’s crop quality report, the Great Plains Analytical Laboratory in Kansas City, Missouri, collected, tested and analyzed 219 samples from elevators in 18 reporting areas across 11 states. Sampled states account for an estimated 71% of the total 2025 U.S. SRW production.
The average grade for the 2025 SRW harvest survey is U.S. No. 2 SRW. Test weights in the Gulf region remained relatively unchanged, while the East Coast samples, smaller in number, showed a decline due to increased rainfall during harvest.
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Source : Ukr Agro Consult
