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87,000
Number of farms |
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351 acres
Average size of an Iowa farm |
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30,500,000 acres
Land in Iowa farms |
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1st
Iowa leads the US in hog and egg production |
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147,000,000
Over 147 million pounds of cheese are made in Iowa per year |
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2nd
Iowa ranks 2nd in the US, in red meat production |
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1st
In the U.S., Iowa has the most acres of land enrolled in the continuous CRP sign-up, trees, grasses and soil on CRP land removed an estimated 17 million metric tons of carbon annually from the atmosphere |
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13,300,000 acres
Corn acres in 2017, -4.32% vs. 2016
203 bu/acre
Corn yield in 2015, +11 bu/acre vs. 2015 |
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10,100,000 acres
Soybean acres in 2017, +6.32% vs. 2016
60.5 bu/acre
Soybean yield in 2016, +4.0 bu/acre vs. 2015 |
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25,000 acres
Wheat acres in 2017, unchanged from 2016
63 bu/acre
Wheat yield in 2016, +11.0 bu/acre vs. 2015 |