New York farms produced an estimated 16.8 million bushels of soybeans in 2018, up more than 40 percent from 11.9 million bushels produced in 2017, the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service recently reported. New York farms harvested an estimated 320,000 acres of soybeans last year, up from 265,000 acres in 2017, the agency said. The total […]
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New York farms produced an estimated 16.8 million bushels of soybeans in 2018, up more than 40 percent from 11.9 million bushels produced in 2017, the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service recently reported.
New York farms harvested an estimated 320,000 acres of soybeans last year, up from 265,000 acres in 2017, the agency said.
The total yield per acre in the Empire State was 52.5 bushels of soybeans in 2018, up 17 percent from 45 bushels the year before.
In neighboring Pennsylvania, production of soybeans dipped more than 2 percent to an estimated 28.4 million bushels in 2018 from just over 29 million bushels in 2017, the USDA reported.
Nationally, U.S. farms produced an estimated 4.54 billion bushels of soybeans last year, up 3 percent from 4.41 billion bushels in 2017, according to the USDA.