US farmers are expected to harvest 16.0 billion bushels of corn in 2026 (forecast), down 5.5% from 17.0 billion in 2025. Soybeans: 4.6 billion bushels in 2026 (forecast), up 7.0% from 4.3 billion in 2025. Wheat: 1.5 billion bushels in 2026, down 22.9% from 2.0 billion in 2025. The US cattle herd was 94.2 million head on Jul 1, 2026.
Updated Oct 10, 2026 · crop year 2026 (forecasts until the final estimates)
Corn production
16.0B bu
-5.5%vs 2025
Yield 181.2 bu/acre (forecast).
2026 forecast, United States · Forecast
Soybeans production
4.6B bu
+7.0%vs 2025
Yield 53.1 bu/acre (forecast).
2026 forecast, United States · Forecast
Wheat production
1.5B bu
-22.9%vs 2025
Yield 48.1 bu/acre.
2026, United States
Cattle inventory
94.2M head
+0.2%vs a year earlier
Cattle and calves on farms and ranches.
Jul 1, 2026, United States
The newest US number of each commodity and its change from a year earlier. Click a name for states, counties and prices.
16.0B bu
production, 2026 forecast · -5.5%
4.6B bu
production, 2026 forecast · +7.0%
1.5B bu
production, 2026 · -22.9%
13.4M bales
production, 2026 forecast · -3.3%
157.7M cwt
production, 2026 forecast · -23.7%
291.1M bu
production, 2026 forecast · -33.4%
115.7M bu
production, 2026 · -18.8%
69.1M bu
production, 2026 · -0.8%
120.5M tons
production, 2026 forecast · -2.0%
5.1B lb
production, 2026 forecast · -27.9%
31.1M tons
production, 2026 forecast · -11.4%
417.6M cwt
production, 2025 · -0.8%
94.2M head
inventory, Jul 1, 2026 · +0.2%
74.3M head
inventory, Sep 1, 2026 · -1.5%
Changes compare with the same period a year earlier. Forecasts are replaced by final estimates after the harvest.
Choose a crop or livestock to see where it is grown or raised. Each crop page has the full state ranking and the top counties.
2025, bu. Darker states have more.
Share of the US total
DataPorium shows how much of each major US crop is grown, on how many acres and with what yield, how many cattle and hogs are on farms, and what farmers are paid, from official government statistics since 2000, with 2026 as the newest crop year. Corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, rice, sorghum, barley, oats, hay, peanuts, sugar beets, potatoes, cattle and hogs each have their own page with the trend since 2000, the ranking of the states and the top counties.
Production is the harvested amount of a crop in its own unit: bushels for grains and soybeans, 480-pound bales for cotton, hundredweight for rice and potatoes, tons for hay and sugar beets, pounds for peanuts. Yield is production per harvested acre. Corn and sorghum numbers are for grain, while their planted area covers all uses. During the season the current crop year starts with forecasts, which are marked as such and replaced by the final estimates after the harvest.
The price received is the average price farmers got for a crop or for livestock in a month or a marketing year. A marketing year starts at harvest (for example September 1 for corn and soybeans) and runs for twelve months. County numbers exist for the main field crops; some are withheld to protect single farms, so the counties do not add up to the state. The same numbers are in the DataPorium API (/agriculture/commodities, /agriculture/stats and /agriculture/prices).
16.0 billion bushels is the 2026 forecast for US corn for grain, down 5.5% from the year before. Soybeans: 4.6 billion bushels.
Iowa grew the most corn in 2025: 2.8 billion bushels, 16.3% of the US total. Illinois was second.
181.2 bushels per acre is the 2026 forecast for the US, compared with 186.5 bu/acre a year earlier.
94.2 million head of cattle and calves were on US farms and ranches on Jul 1, 2026, up 0.2% from a year earlier. The hog herd was 74.3 million head on Sep 1, 2026.
$4.45 per bushel was the average price farmers received for corn in Aug 2026, up 12.4% from a year earlier.
For the current crop year, production, yield and acreage start as forecasts made during the season. They are marked as forecasts and are replaced by the final estimate after the harvest.