Weather challenges this spring tugged total crop acres down for 2022. USDA’s Farm Service Agency reports the overall U.S. crop acreage mix is 248.861 million acres for 2022. Of that total, farmers reporting they were unable to plant on 6.387 million acres.
In 2021, the U.S. had just 2.1 million acres of prevent plant—the lowest since 2012.
For 2022, North Dakota had the most prevent plant acres — 2,370,545. Even though the state claimed 40% of all prevent plant acres, that is just about 15% of their total crop acres. South Dakota had a total of 733,328 prevent plant acres (6% of total crop acres); Arkansas had 585,054 prevent plant acres (10% of total crop acres) and Minnesota had 495,975 prevent plant acres (3% of total crop acres).
Corn was the hardest hit crop with more than 3 million acres unplanted. Of that total of prevent plant acres, 1.19 million acres were in North Dakota and 540,193 corn acres were in South Dakota. Arkansas and Minnesota each had around 270,000 acres of corn prevent plant acres.
Soybean prevented planting totaled 987,229 acres in the August data, with more than half — 522,061 acres — in North Dakota. South Dakota had 182,831 soybean acres of prevent plant and Minnesota had 106,339 acres.
North Dakota also led in wheat prevent plant acres. In total, 1,161,605 acres of wheat were not planted, with 600,365 acres being in North Dakota. Minnesota had 113,578 acres of prevent plant in wheat.
