New York farms are forecast to have produced 104.6 million bushels of corn for grain in 2018, up 33.9 percent from 78.1 million bushels produced in 2017, according to the Nov. 1 forecast production report from the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. This projected corn production rise is up from the USDA’s Sept. 1 report […]
New York farms are forecast to have produced 104.6 million bushels of corn for grain in 2018, up 33.9 percent from 78.1 million bushels produced in 2017, according to the Nov. 1 forecast production report from the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service.
This projected corn production rise is up from the USDA’s Sept. 1 report when New York’s production was estimated to have increased 31.5 percent this year.
New York farms harvested 630,000 acres of corn for grain this year, up 30 percent from 485,000 acres last year, the agency said.
The estimated total yield per acre in the Empire State, as of Nov. 1, was 166 bushels of corn, up from 161 bushels in 2017. In the Sept. 1 USDA report, the estimated total yield per acre had been forecast at 163 bushels, up 1.2 percent from a year prior.
In neighboring Pennsylvania, corn for grain production was estimated to have declined almost 5 percent to 141.1 million bushels in 2018 from 148.1 million bushels in 2017, per the USDA’s November report.
Nationally, U.S. farms produced an estimated 14.63 billion bushels this year, up slightly from last year’s production of 14.6 billion bushels, according to the USDA.
