Corn production in New York jumped 24 percent in 2021, USDA reports

New York farms produced 97.7 million bushels of corn for grain last year, up more than 24 percent from 78.5 million bushels in 2020. 

That’s according to a Jan. 12 report from USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) New York Field Office, based on surveys conducted in the first two weeks of December.

The total yield per acre in the Empire State averaged a record-high 167 bushels per acre in 2021, up 10 bushels per acre, or 6.4 percent, from 157 bushels in the prior year.

Area harvested for grain corn totaled 585,000 acres last year, up 17 percent from 2020, the USDA NASS said.