USDA releases its perspective planting report for 2021

Date:04-02-2021

The U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service has released its perspective planting report for 2021, and it shows:

Corn Planted Acreage Up Less than 1 Percent from 2020

Soybean Acreage Up 5 Percent

All Wheat Acreage Up 5 Percent

All Cotton Acreage Down Less than 1 Percent

Corn planted area for all purposes in 2021 is estimated at 91.1 million acres, up less than 1 percent or an increase of
325,000 acres from last year. Compared with last year, planted acreage is expected to be up or unchanged in 24 of the
48 estimating States.

Soybean planted area for 2021 is estimated at 87.6 million acres, up 5 percent from last year. Compared with last year,
planted acreage is up or unchanged in 23 of the 29 estimating States.

All wheat planted area for 2021 is estimated at 46.4 million acres, up 5 percent from 2020. This represents the fourth
lowest all wheat planted area since records began in 1919. The 2021 winter wheat planted area, at 33.1 million acres, is up
9 percent from last year and up 3 percent from the previous estimate. Of this total, about 23.2 million acres are
Hard Red Winter, 6.42 million acres are Soft Red Winter, and 3.48 million acres are White Winter. Area expected to be
planted to other spring wheat for 2021 is estimated at 11.7 million acres, down 4 percent from 2020. Of this total, about
10.9 million acres are Hard Red Spring wheat. Durum planted area for 2021 is expected to total 1.54 million acres, down
9 percent from the previous year.

All cotton planted area for 2021 is estimated at 12.0 million acres, down less than 1 percent from last year. Upland area is
estimated at 11.9 million acres, up slightly from 2020. American Pima area is estimated at 142,000 acres, down 30 percent
from 2020.

Read the complete report on the USDA NASS website.