United States - Cereal yield

Cereal yield (kg per hectare)

The value for Cereal yield (kg per hectare) in United States was 8,692 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 8,781 in 2017 and a minimum value of 2,522 in 1961.

Definition: Cereal yield, measured as kilograms per hectare of harvested land, includes wheat, rice, maize, barley, oats, rye, millet, sorghum, buckwheat, and mixed grains. Production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed, or silage and those used for grazing are excluded. The FAO allocates production data to the calendar year in which the bulk of the harvest took place. Most of a crop harvested near the end of a year will be used in the following year.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.

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Year Value
1961 2,522
1962 2,683
1963 2,801
1964 2,639
1965 3,041
1966 3,017
1967 3,161
1968 3,213
1969 3,464
1970 3,155
1971 3,726
1972 3,908
1973 3,683
1974 2,998
1975 3,461
1976 3,533
1977 3,683
1978 4,110
1979 4,426
1980 3,772
1981 4,257
1982 4,371
1983 3,536
1984 4,374
1985 4,763
1986 4,699
1987 4,735
1988 3,707
1989 4,474
1990 4,755
1991 4,508
1992 5,358
1993 4,299
1994 5,560
1995 4,645
1996 5,175
1997 5,275
1998 5,677
1999 5,737
2000 5,854
2001 5,891
2002 5,547
2003 6,024
2004 6,851
2005 6,451
2006 6,400
2007 6,704
2008 6,598
2009 7,226
2010 6,978
2011 6,804
2012 5,912
2013 7,301
2014 7,638
2015 7,430
2016 8,614
2017 8,781
2018 8,692

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Agricultural production