New York farms produced more than 15.9 million bushels of soybeans in 2020, up 47 percent from 10.8 million bushels in 2019, according to a USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service 2020 crop-production summary report issued on Jan. 12. The Empire State production amount for 2020 was substantially above prior USDA forecasts released in recent months. New York […]
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New York farms produced more than 15.9 million bushels of soybeans in 2020, up 47 percent from 10.8 million bushels in 2019, according to a USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service 2020 crop-production summary report issued on Jan. 12.
The Empire State production amount for 2020 was substantially above prior USDA forecasts released in recent months.
New York farms harvested 312,000 acres of soybeans last year, up 39 percent from 225,000 acres in 2019. This increase also exceeded previous forecasts.
The total yield per acre in New York state averaged 51 bushels of soybeans in 2020, up 3 bushels from the year-ago average.
Nationally, U.S. farms produced more than 4.13 billion bushels of soybeans last year, up more than 16 percent from their 2019 production total of 3.55 billion bushels, according to the USDA.
Though its soybean output grew, New York state accounted for less than 0.4 percent of total U.S. production of this crop in 2020, per the USDA.