Pennsylvania Ag Connection - Pennsylvania Corn Yield, Soybean Production at Record Highs

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Pennsylvania Corn Yield, Soybean Production at Record Highs
Pennsylvania Ag Connection - 01/15/2018

Pennsylvania corn growers produced 148.1 million bushels, up 21 percent from 2016, according to King Whetstone, director of the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Northeastern Regional Field Office. The average yield in Pennsylvania is estimated at a record 161.0 bushels per acre, 32.0 bushels above the 2016 average yield of 129.0 bushels per acre. Area harvested, at 920 thousand acres, is down 3 percent from 2016.

Corn for silage production in 2017 is estimated at a record 9.03 million tons, up 17 percent from 2016. The average yield is estimated at a record 21.5 tons per acre, up 4.0 tons from last year's yield. Harvested area, at 420 thousand acres, is down 5 percent from last year.

Soybean production in 2017 totaled a record 28.1 million bushels, up 11 percent from last year. Soybean yield is estimated at 48.0 bushels per acre, up 4.0 bushels from 2016. Harvested area in 2017, at 585 thousand, is up 2 percent from last year.

Pennsylvania tobacco production for 2017 is estimated at 19.0 million pounds, down 7 percent from last year. Growers harvested 8,100 acres, down 1 percent from a year ago. Yield per acre averaged 2,344 pounds per acre, down 151 pounds per acre from 2016.

Also released today were the Winter Wheat Seedings and Grain Stocks reports. The Winter Wheat Seedings report is the first indicator of this year's winter wheat acreage. Planted area for harvest in 2018 is estimated at 180 thousand acres, down 14 percent from 2017 and down 5 percent from 2016.

The estimates in the report were based primarily on surveys conducted the first two weeks of December.

The full Crop Production 2017 Summary is available online. The report contains year-end acreage, yield and production estimates for grains and hay; oilseeds; cotton, tobacco and sugar; dry beans, peas and lentils; and potatoes and miscellaneous crops.

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