New York farmers increase corn-planted acreage by 12 percent in 2018

New York farmers have planted corn, for all purposes, on 1.12 million acres this year, up 12 percent from 1 million acres in 2017, according to a new report from the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).

Empire State growers expect to harvest 630,000 acres of corn for grain production, up 30 percent from 485,000 acres last year, NASS said.

For the U.S. as a whole, the USDA estimates the corn-planted area for all purposes is 89.1 million acres in 2018, down 1 percent from last year. Growers expect to harvest 81.8 million acres for corn grain this year, down 1 percent from 2017.