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84,900
Number of farms |
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359 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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12,600,000 acres
Corn acres intended in 2022, -2% vs. 2021
205 bu/acre
Corn yield in 2021, +27.0 bu/acre vs. 2020 |
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10,400,000 acres
Soybean acres intended in 2022, +3% vs. 2021
62 bu/acre
Soybean yield in 2021, +9.0 bu/acre vs. 2020 |
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NA
Wheat acres intended in 2022
NA bu/acre
Wheat yield in 2021 |
Last 60 Days Percent of Normal Precipitation, Valid on July 21, 2022
