Annual Crop Production (January 2021)

Annual Crop Production

Cotton Ginnings

Grain Stocks

January Crop Production

Rice Stocks

Winter Wheat and Canola Seedings

Executive Summary

Lance Honig, Chief

Crops Branch

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Data Sources

Operator Reported Surveys

Field Surveys

December Ag Survey	Sample Size = 77,706	November 28 - December 17
Off-Farm Grain Stocks	~8,400 Facilities	November 28 - December 21
Cotton Ginnings	560 Gins	January 4-6
Objective Yield	Sample Size = 3,930	Prior to Harvest
Corn, Cotton, Soybeans
Objective Measurement	1,814 Groves	December 8-22
Florida Citrus

FSA Certified Acres

FSA and RMA Failed Acres

Farm Service Agency policy requires that producers participating in several programs submit an annual report regarding all cropland use on their farms.

Acres reported as "failed" to either the Farm Service Agency (FSA) or the Risk Management Agency (RMA) are considered minimum levels of abandonment.

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December 2020 Agricultural Survey

Sample Sizes

Alaska = 183

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2020 Principal Crops

Planted and Harvested Acreage

	Planted		Harvested
	(1,000 Acres)		(1,000 Acres)
United States		310,107		291,666
% Change from		↓	0.6			N/A
Previous Estimate
% Change from		↑	2.3		↑	2.4
Previous Season
	Top 5 States - By Planted Acreage
	Planted		Harvested
	(1,000 Acres)	% ∆ PY	(1,000 Acres)	% ∆ PY
Iowa	24,330	↑	1.7	23,713	↑	0.4
Kansas	23,469	↑	0.7	22,651	↑	0.8
Illinois	22,720	↑	5.2	22,485	↑	6.0
Texas	21,872	↑	1.7	14,999	↓	10.2
North Dakota	20,903	↓	10.0	20,320	↓	4.3

Principal Crops Acres
	By State
	8%
	8%
	7%
	7%
63%	7%

Iowa

Kansas

Illinois

Texas

North Dakota

Other

Planted acres are used for corn, sorghum, oats, barley, rye, winter wheat, Durum wheat, other spring wheat, rice, soybeans, peanuts, sunflower, cotton, dry edible beans, chickpeas, potatoes, sugarbeets, canola, and proso millet. Harvested acreage is used for all hay, tobacco, and sugarcane in computing total area planted.

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