By Ryan Hanrahan
Agri-Pulse’s Olivia M. Bridges and Kim Chipman reported that “the harvest for corn, the biggest U.S. cash crop, would be the second largest ever if a forecast calling for 16 billion bushels is realized, the Agriculture Department said in its October crop production report.”
“Along with a bumper harvest, USDA’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, or WASDE, sees higher corn yield at 181.2 bushels an acre, higher than last month’s outlook and the average analyst estimate of 177.7 bushels an acre, said Karen Braun, chief market analyst for Zaner Ag Hedge,” Bridges and Chipman reported. “… The outlook for the average U.S. soybean yield also was raised, to 53.1 a bushel, slightly above expectations. Soybean production is seen at 4.56 billion bushels, up 7% from 2025. If realized, both output and yield would be the biggest on record.”
Braun said on the social media platform X that the corn yield increase from a predicted 178.5 bushels per acre in September to 181.2 bpa this month was the USDA’s largest September to October increase since 2005 and that Nebraska’s yield alone was raised 11 bushels per acre, which “raised national yield by 1.2 bpa and added 106 mbu of production.”
Source : illinois.edu