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CropsOld-crop US corn stocks reached 2.10 billion bushels on 1 September 2026, up 35% on a year earlier, while soybean stocks fell 3% and all wheat stocks 13%, and the 2026 wheat crop came in 23% smaller.
LivestockUSDA's Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report counts 74.3 million hogs and pigs on US farms on 1 September, 2% fewer than a year earlier but 2% more than on 1 June.
CropsNASS has closed the Agricultural Yield Survey behind the August Crop Production report, and says it made greater use of acreage already filed with the Farm Service Agency to cut what it asks of growers.
CropsNASS has begun its County Agricultural Production Survey, the questionnaire behind the only official yearly crop estimates the United States publishes at county level.
CropsThe June Agricultural Survey, which sets the acreage and grain stocks figures published on 30 June, went out to more than 90,000 American producers.
LivestockAmerican farms held 74.3 million hogs and pigs on 1 March 2026, up slightly on the year but 1% below December, with Iowa accounting for 24.7 million head.
AgribusinessMore than two million American landowners rent out 348 million acres of farmland, and 79% of it belongs to landlords who do not farm, a USDA survey has found.
LivestockAmerican farms held 86.2 million cattle and calves on 1 January 2026, with beef cows down 1% and the calf crop down 2%, while milk cow numbers rose.
