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USDA releases 2018 Wisconsin vegetable production totals

The Badger State remained the nation’s top producer of snap beans and third-largest producer of sweet corn in 2018.  The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service says there were 66-thousand acres of snap beans in the state yielding 6.6 million hundredweight.  About half of the beans were sold on the fresh market and the rest were processed.  The crop was valued at more than 49 million dollars.

More than 56-thousand acres of sweet corn yielded 9.5 million hundredweight for a value of more than 40-million dollars.  Washington and Minnesota are first and second nationally in sweet corn production.

Wisconsin producers also grew more than 23-thousand acres of green peas, four-thousand acres of carrots, 51-hundred acres of cucumbers, 37-hundred acres of pumpkins, and 33-hundred acres of cabbage.

The value of Wisconsin’s 2018 vegetable crops exceeded 135 million dollars.