DES MOINES – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig commented on the 2024 Iowa Crop Manufacturing Annual Abstract launched by the USA Division of Agriculture (USDA) Nationwide Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). The nationwide abstract and state summaries are launched in January annually.
“Iowa’s resilient farmers battled one other 12 months of rollercoaster climate circumstances. The spring began with the lingering historic drought and a report variety of tornadoes, summer season introduced devastating floods and different extreme climate, and dry circumstances led to an uninterrupted fall harvest. Regardless of these challenges, Iowa’s hardworking and revolutionary farmers as soon as once more produced one other sturdy corn and soybean crop,” stated Secretary Naig. “Robust productiveness should be met with sturdy market demand. The mixture of low commodity costs and excessive enter prices means Iowa’s ag economic system stays comfortable. We should proceed to construct new and broaden current markets for our merchandise and that may stay my focus within the 12 months forward.”
2024 Iowa Crop Manufacturing Highlights
At 211 bushels per acre and a pair of.63 billion bushels of manufacturing, this 12 months’s Iowa corn crop ranks as the very best ever yield and second largest manufacturing in state historical past and helped drive the nationwide corn yield of 179.3 bushels per acre to an all-time report.
At 60 bushels per acre and 598 million bushels of manufacturing, this 12 months’s soybean crop ranked because the third highest yield and second highest manufacturing in Iowa historical past.
Iowa Crop Manufacturing
Corn for grain manufacturing in Iowa for 2024 was estimated at 2.63 billion bushels, in line with the USDA, Nationwide Agricultural Statistics Service – Crop Manufacturing 2024 Abstract. Present 12 months manufacturing was up 4 % from the earlier 12 months’s 2.52 billion bushels. Iowa’s corn for grain yield was estimated at a report 211.0 bushels per acre. Space harvested for grain was estimated at 12.5 million acres, 100,000 acres under 2023. Corn planted for all functions in 2024 was estimated at 12.9 million acres.
Corn for silage manufacturing was estimated at 8.16 million tons, up 7 % from 2023. The silage yield estimate of 24.0 tons per acre was up 4.0 tons per acre from 2023. Producers harvested 340,000 acres of corn for silage, down 11 % from 2023.
Soybean manufacturing was estimated at 598 million bushels in 2024. This was up 4 % from final 12 months’s 573 million bushels. The Iowa soybean crop yielded 60.0 bushels per acre in 2024. The harvested acreage of 9.96 million was up 80,000 acres from 2023. Soybean planted acreage, at 10.1 million, was up 100,000 acres from 2023.
All hay manufacturing for the state was estimated at 3.49 million tons, up 19 % from the two.95 million tons produced in 2023. Producers averaged 3.49 tons per acre, up 0.57 tons per acre from 2023. All hay harvested acres had been estimated at 1.00 million acres, down 10,000 acres from 2023.
Alfalfa and alfalfa mixtures for hay manufacturing was estimated at 2.74 million tons, up 14 % from 2023. Producers averaged 3.80 tons per acre, up 0.60 tons per acre from 2023. Harvested acres had been down 30,000 from final 12 months, to 720,000 acres. Iowa producers seeded 80,000 acres of alfalfa and alfalfa mixtures in 2024, up 14 % from 2023.
Different hay manufacturing was estimated at 756,000 tons, up 38 % from 2023. Producers averaged 2.70 tons per acre, up 0.60 tons from the 2023 yield. Harvested acres of different hay, at 280,000, had been up 20,000 acres from 2023.
United States Crop Manufacturing
Corn for grain manufacturing in 2024 was estimated at 14.9 billion bushels, down 3 % from the 2023 estimate. The typical yield in the USA was estimated at a report excessive 179.3 bushels per acre, 2.0 bushels above the 2023 yield of 177.3 bushels per acre. Space harvested for grain was estimated at 82.9 million acres, down 4 % from the 2023 estimate.
Soybean manufacturing in 2024 totaled 4.37 billion bushels, up 5 % from 2023. The typical yield per acre was estimated at 50.7 bushels, up 0.1 bushel from 2023. Harvested space, at 86.1 million acres, was up 5 % from final 12 months.
The entire report might be discovered on the USDA NASS web site at www.nass.usda.gov/Publications.
