2022 summary: USDA finds lower corn, soybean production

averaged 63 bushels per acre, 2 below last year’s record and 3 above 2020, and produced 677.25 million bushels. Illinois farmers grew 683.15 million bushels in 2021.

INDIANA

Indiana’s corn averaged 190 bushels per acre in 2022, 5 below the previous year’s average and 3 better than 2020.

Total production was 974.7 million bushels from 5.13 million harvested acres for all purposes in 2022 after reaching nearly 1.028 billion bushels in 2021 from 5.27 million harvested acres.

Indiana soybeans averaged 57.5 bushels per acre in 2022 compared to the previous year’s record 60 bushels per acre. The state averaged 59 bushels per acre in 2020.

Production for 2022 is estimated at 335.225 million bushels after producing 338.4 million the previous year. Harvested area was 5.83 million in 2022, compared to 5.64 million in 2021.

Iowa

The Iowa statewide corn yield average was 200 bushels per acre in 2022, 4 below 2021 and 13 above 2020. The state produced 2.48 billion bushels in 2022 and nearly 2.54 billion in 2021.

Iowa harvested 12.4 million corn acres in 2022 for all purposes compared to 12.45 million a year earlier.

Iowa soybeans averaged 58.5 bushels per acre in 2022, 4.5 below 2021, and averaged 54 in 2020.

Production totaled 586.755 million bushels in 2022 from 10.03 million

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