New York farms are estimated to have produced 15 million bushels of soybeans in 2020, up 39 percent from 10.8 million bushels in 2019, according to a USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service forecast issued on Nov. 10. That estimate was unchanged from the agency’s October forecast.

New York farms are projected to have harvested an estimated 300,000 acres of soybeans this year, up 33 percent from 225,000 acres last year. That forecast was also unchanged from October’s reading.

The total yield per acre in the Empire State is estimated to average 50 bushels of soybeans in 2020, up 2 bushels from the 2019 average and unchanged from the October forecast.

Nationally, U.S. farms are expected to have produced an estimated 4.17 billion bushels of soybeans this year, up more than 17 percent from their 2019 production total, according to the USDA. That forecast is down from October, when the department projected national production of 4.27 billion bushels of soybeans this year and a 20 percent increase. 

Though its output grew, the Empire State accounted for less than 0.4 percent of total U.S. production of this crop in 2020, per the USDA.