New York farms are estimated to have produced 86.3 million bushels of corn this year, up 0.2 percent from 86.1 million bushels in 2019, according to a USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service forecast issued on Nov. 10. The estimate was down from a month ago when the agency forecast 86.8 million bushels of corn were […]
New York farms are estimated to have produced 86.3 million bushels of corn this year, up 0.2 percent from 86.1 million bushels in 2019, according to a USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service forecast issued on Nov. 10.
The estimate was down from a month ago when the agency forecast 86.8 million bushels of corn were produced this year.
New York farms are projected to harvest an estimated 520,000 acres of corn for grain in 2020, down 5 percent from 545,000 acres last year. That forecast was unchanged from October’s projection.
The total yield per acre in the Empire State is forecast to hit 166 bushels of corn this year, up 8 bushels from the 2019 average. That projection was down 1 bushel from the prior month’s estimate.
Nationally, U.S. farms are expected to have produced just over 14.5 billion bushels of corn for grain this year, up 6.5 percent from their 2019 production total of more than
13.6 billion bushels, according to the USDA. In October, the agency had estimated national production of 14.7 billion bushels of corn in 2020.
