Kentucky Farms Crop Yields Hurt by Drought
Posted on November 18, 2007
The Shelbyville Kentucky newspaper, The Sentinel-News shed the spotlight on how Kentucky farms crop yields hurt by drought this summer in an article in the Wednesday November 14, 2007 edition of the paper.
The Kentucky Field Office of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service released crop yield figures and the drought definitely made an impact.
Corn production overall was up approximately 16% to over 175 million bushels compared to the 2006 crop – but this is primarily caused by more acreage being planted in corn in the first place. Corn production yields on a per acre basis dropped from 129 bushels per acre to 112 bushels per acre – a 17 bushel per acre decrease.
Soybean production for Kentucky farms were hurt even more. Estimates this year put production at 29 million bushels, a sharp decrease of 52% from last year’s production in 2006. Fewer acres were planted, and the drought both played a decisive role in the lower figures. Yield on a per acre basis was 27 bushels compared to last year’s production of 44 bushels per acre.
Predictions are already coming in for a good 2008 so hopefully they’ll remain true and we’ll get back to more normal weather conditions for Kentucky.
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