New York cabbage production jumped 26 percent in 2020

New York farms produced an estimated 562 million pounds of cabbage in 2020, up 26 percent from the 2019 estimate, according to a USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) 2020 vegetable production summary report issued on Feb. 12.

The average yield per acre was estimated at 48,000 pounds last year, 26 percent higher than the 2019 average yield per acre.

New York farmers harvested an estimated 11,700 acres of cabbage in 2020, unchanged from a year earlier, according to NASS. The value of production totaled $81.7 million last year, off 1 percent from 2019.