Soybean Plantings Plunge 10%
WASHINGTON - Jun 28/19 - SNS -- The 2019 soybean planted area is estimated at 80.0 million acres, down 10% from last year, according to the USDA's seeded area estimates for 2019.
Compared with last year, planted acreage is down in all 29 major producing States. Area for harvest, forecast at 79.3 million acres, is also down 10% from 2018.
Producers planted 94% of the 2019 soybean acreage to herbicide resistant seed varieties, unchanged from 2018.
Beginning in 2019, soybean estimates were discontinued in Florida and West Virginia.
Soybean Area Planted and Harvested - States and United States: 2018 and 2019
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: Area planted : Area harvested
State :---------------------------------------------------------------
: 2018 : 2019 : 2018 : 2019 1/
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: 1,000 acres
:
Alabama ..........: 345 280 340 275
Arkansas .........: 3,280 3,000 3,240 2,950
Delaware .........: 170 150 168 148
Florida 2/ .......: 18 (NA) 12 (NA)
Georgia ..........: 145 110 135 105
Illinois .........: 10,800 10,300 10,750 10,240
Indiana ..........: 5,950 5,300 5,920 5,280
Iowa .............: 10,000 9,100 9,910 9,030
Kansas ...........: 4,750 4,700 4,700 4,650
Kentucky .........: 2,000 1,700 1,990 1,690
:
Louisiana ........: 1,340 1,050 1,200 1,010
Maryland .........: 520 510 515 505
Michigan .........: 2,300 2,100 2,280 2,090
Minnesota ........: 7,800 6,900 7,710 6,830
Mississippi ......: 2,230 1,950 2,190 1,920
Missouri .........: 5,850 5,300 5,800 5,230
Nebraska .........: 5,700 5,000 5,650 4,950
New Jersey .......: 105 100 103 98
New York .........: 330 270 320 265
North Carolina ...: 1,650 1,500 1,570 1,490
:
North Dakota .....: 6,900 5,900 6,860 5,850
Ohio .............: 5,000 4,700 4,980 4,690
Oklahoma .........: 630 520 600 500
Pennsylvania .....: 640 630 630 625
South Carolina ...: 390 350 375 340
South Dakota .....: 5,650 4,400 5,580 4,360
Tennessee ........: 1,700 1,500 1,670 1,470
Texas ............: 175 100 135 85
Virginia .........: 600 570 590 560
West Virginia 2/ .: 28 (NA) 27 (NA)
Wisconsin ........: 2,200 2,050 2,160 2,030
:
United States ....: 89,196 80,040 88,110 79,266
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(NA) Not available.
1/ Forecasted.
2/ Estimates discontinued in 2019.
Percent of Soybean Acreage Planted Following Another Harvested Crop - Selected
States and
United States: 2015-2019
[Data as obtained from area frame samples. These data do not represent official
estimates of the Agricultural Statistics Board but provide raw data as obtained from
survey respondents. The purpose of these data is to portray trends in soybean
production practices]
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State : 2015 : 2016 : 2017 : 2018 : 2019
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:
: percent
Alabama ..........: 46 36 16 23 24
Arkansas .........: 9 4 3 3 2
Delaware .........: 45 50 42 34 6
Florida 1/ .......: 54 (D) (D) (Z) (X)
Georgia ..........: 40 44 40 38 18
Illinois .........: 4 3 4 3 5
Indiana ..........: 3 3 2 2 2
Kansas ...........: 9 9 8 6 4
Kentucky .........: 23 25 21 25 26
Louisiana ........: 4 (Z) (Z) 1 1
:
Maryland .........: 42 33 30 27 23
Mississippi ......: 3 2 1 3 1
Missouri .........: 10 9 7 5 8
New Jersey .......: 20 8 4 27 6
North Carolina ...: 41 26 30 35 26
Ohio .............: 1 1 1 2 1
Oklahoma .........: 48 28 28 39 37
Pennsylvania .....: 17 20 18 11 14
South Carolina ...: 41 21 21 36 24
Tennessee ........: 31 31 28 27 20
:
Texas ............: 17 (Z) (Z) (Z) (Z)
Virginia .........: 37 34 40 51 50
West Virginia 1/ .: (Z) 27 10 2 (X)
:
United States ....: 6 5 4 5 4
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(D) Withheld to avoid disclosing data for individual operations.
(X) Not applicable.
(Z) Less than half of the unit shown.
1/ Estimates discontinued in 2019.
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