New York farms produced almost 80.1 million bushels of corn for grain in 2020, down 7 percent from 86.1 million bushels in 2019, according to a USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service crop-production summary issued on Jan. 12. The Empire State production amount for 2020 was substantially below prior USDA forecasts released in recent months. New […]
New York farms produced almost 80.1 million bushels of corn for grain in 2020, down 7 percent from 86.1 million bushels in 2019, according to a USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service crop-production summary issued on Jan. 12.
The Empire State production amount for 2020 was substantially below prior USDA forecasts released in recent months.
New York farms harvested 510,000 acres of corn for grain in 2020, down more than 6 percent from 545,000 acres the year before.
The total yield per acre in the Empire State dipped to 157 bushels of corn last year from 158 bushels in 2019.
Nationally, U.S. farms produced nearly 14.2 billion bushels of corn for grain in 2020, up more than 4 percent from their 2019 production total of more than 13.6 billion bushels, according to the USDA.
