The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released its June Acreage report on June 30. The report estimates 92.7 million acres of corn planted in the United States for 2021, up 2% from last year. Soybean area planted for 2021 is estimated at 87.6 million acres, up 5% from last year.
Following up to the Prospective Plantings report released in late spring, NASS surveyed more than 90,000 farm operators during the first two weeks of June to gather information on what farmers actually planted. Following are key findings released in the Acreage report:
Corn
- Growers expect to harvest 84.5 million acres of corn for grain, up 2% from last year.
- Ninety-three percent of all corn acres planted in the United States are biotech varieties, up 1 percentage point from last year.
Soybeans
- Soybean harvested area for 2021 is estimated at 86.7 million acres, up 5% from 2020.
- Producers planted 95% of the soybean acreage using herbicide-resistant seed varieties, 1 percentage point higher than in 2020.
Cotton
- All cotton planted area for 2021 is estimated at 11.7 million acres, 3% below last year.
- Upland cotton is estimated at 11.6 million acres, down 3% from 2020.
- American Pima is estimated at 142,000 acres, down 30% from last year.
- Ninety-seven percent of Upland cotton planted acres are biotech varieties, up 1 percentage point from 2020.
Wheat
- All wheat planted area for 2021 is estimated at 46.7 million acres, up 5% from last year. This represents the fourth lowest all wheat planted area on record since records began in 1919.
- Winter wheat planted area is estimated at 33.7 million acres, up 11% from 2020. This marks the first year of increasing acreage since 2013.
- Other spring wheat planted area is estimated at 11.6 million acres, down 5% from 2020.
- Durum wheat planted area is estimated at 1.48 million acres, down 12% from last year.
The USDA Acreage report is available online.
