New York farms are estimated to have produced 86.8 million bushels of corn this year, up 1 percent from 86.1 million bushels in 2019, according to a USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service forecast issued on Oct. 9. New York farms are projected to harvest an estimated 520,000 acres of corn for grain in 2020, down […]
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New York farms are estimated to have produced 86.8 million bushels of corn this year, up 1 percent from 86.1 million bushels in 2019, according to a USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service forecast issued on Oct. 9.
New York farms are projected to harvest an estimated 520,000 acres of corn for grain in 2020, down 5 percent from 545,000 acres last year.
The total yield per acre in the Empire State is forecast to hit a record high of 167 bushels of corn this year, up 9 bushels from the 2019 average.
Nationally, U.S. farms are expected to have produced an estimated 14.7 billion bushels of corn for grain this year, up 8 percent from their 2019 production total, according to the USDA.