New York farms produced an estimated 81.1 million bushels of corn for grain this year, down 21 percent from 102.6 million bushels in 2018, according to an Oct. 1 forecast from the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. New York farms harvested an estimated 530,000 acres of corn for grain in 2019, down 18 percent from […]
New York farms produced an estimated 81.1 million bushels of corn for grain this year, down 21 percent from 102.6 million bushels in 2018, according to an Oct. 1 forecast from the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service.
New York farms harvested an estimated 530,000 acres of corn for grain in 2019, down 18 percent from 645,000 acres last year.
The total yield per acre in the Empire State was 153 bushels of corn this year, down nearly 4 percent from 159 bushels in 2018.
In neighboring Pennsylvania, production of corn for grain increased more than 15 percent to an estimated 153.6 million bushels in 2019 from 133 million bushels in the prior year, the USDA reported.
Nationally, U.S. farms produced an estimated 13.8 billion bushels of corn for grain this year, down more than 4 percent from 14.4 billion bushels in 2018, according to the USDA.
