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Wisconsin record corn & soybean yields confirmed

The USDA confirms that Wisconsin set record yields in 2016.

The National Ag Statistics Service says Wisconsin farmers harvested 573 million bushels of corn, and 107 million bushels of soybeans.  Both are records.  Wisconsin farmers averaged 178 bushels of corn and 55 bushels of soybeans per acre.

There were 180-thousand fewer acres of corn chopped for silage than in 2015, but with more tons per acre.  The corn silage total dropped 12% to about 16 million tons.  Wisconsin’s hay harvest fell three percent and the alfalfa harvest was down five percent.

Potato yields were up one percent averaging more than 48-thousand pounds per acre.