Corn for grain production was up 8 percent from 2020, according to the latest crop production summary from USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Corn for grain production in Wisconsin in 2021 was estimated at 547 million bushels from the previous year’s 507 million. Corn for grain yield was estimated at 180 bushels per acre, which is a record high. Area harvested for grain was estimated at 3.04 million acres, 110,000 acres above 2020. Corn planted for all purposes in 2021 was estimated at 4 million acres.
Corn for silage production was estimated at 19.1 million tons, down 5 percent from 2020. The silage yield estimate of 21.5 tons per acre was up 0.5 ton per acre from 2020. Producers harvested 890,000 acres of corn for silage, down 7 percent from 2020.
Soybean production was estimated at 114 million bushels in 2021, which is a record high. This was up 10 percent from last year’s 103 million bushels. Wisconsin’s soybean crop yielded 55 bushels per acre in 2021. The harvested acreage of 2.07 million was up 80,000 acres from 2020. Soybean planted acreage, at 2.10 million, was up 80,000 acres from 2020.
All hay production for the state was estimated at 3.52 million tons, up 1 percent from the 3.48 million tons produced in 2020. Producers averaged 2.86 tons per acre, up 0.32 ton per acre from 2020. All hay harvested acres were estimated at 1.23 million acres, down 140,000 acres from 2020.
Alfalfa and alfalfa mixtures for hay production was estimated at 2.91 million tons, up 8 percent from 2020. Producers averaged 3.20 tons per acre, unchanged from 2020. Harvested acres were up 70,000 from last year, to 910,000 acres. Wisconsin producers seeded 300,000 acres of alfalfa and alfalfa mixtures in 2021, down 25 percent from 2020.
Other hay production was estimated at 608,000 tons, down 24 percent from 2020. Producers averaged 1.9 tons per acre, up 0.4 ton from the 2020 yield. Harvested acres of other hay, at 320,000, were down 210,000 acres from 2020.
Potato production for 2021 was estimated at 29.1 million cwt, up 1 percent from 2020. Producers averaged 425 cwt per acre, up 1 percent from the 2020 yield. Planted and harvested acres were estimated at 69,000 acres and 68,500 acres, respectively.
