New York farms produced an estimated 102.6 million bushels of corn for grain in 2018, up more than 31 percent from 78.1 million bushels produced in 2017, the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service reported on Feb. 8. New York farms harvested an estimated 645,000 acres of corn for grain last year, up 33 percent from […]
New York farms produced an estimated 102.6 million bushels of corn for grain in 2018, up more than 31 percent from 78.1 million bushels produced in 2017, the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service reported on Feb. 8.
New York farms harvested an estimated 645,000 acres of corn for grain last year, up 33 percent from 485,000 acres in 2017, the agency said.
The total yield per acre in the Empire State was 159 bushels of corn in 2018, down more than 1 percent from 161 bushels the year before.
In neighboring Pennsylvania, production of corn for grain declined 10 percent to an estimated 133 million bushels in 2018 from 148.1 million bushels in 2017, the USDA reported.
Nationally, U.S. farms produced an estimated 14.4 billion bushels of corn for grain last year, down more than 1 percent from 14.6 billion bushels in 2017, according to the USDA.
