New York farms produced 86.1 million bushels of corn for grain last year, down 11.9 percent from 97.8 million bushels in 2018, according to the Jan. 10 Northeast Crop Production Report from the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. New York farms harvested an estimated 545,000 acres of corn for grain in 2019, down more than 11 […]
New York farms produced 86.1 million bushels of corn for grain last year, down 11.9 percent from 97.8 million bushels in 2018, according to the Jan. 10 Northeast Crop Production Report from the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service.
New York farms harvested an estimated 545,000 acres of corn for grain in 2019, down more than 11 percent from 615,000 acres in the previous year..
The total yield per acre in the Empire State was 158 bushels of corn last year, down 0.6 percent from 159 bushels in 2018.
In neighboring Pennsylvania, production of corn for grain increased 30 percent to 162.2 million bushels in 2019 from 124.6 million bushels in the prior year, the USDA reported.
Nationally, U.S. farms produced 13.7 billion bushels of corn for grain last year, down 4.5 percent from 14.3 billion bushels in 2018, according to the USDA.
