COLORADO
All corn stocks in Colorado on December 1, 2020 were 94.06 million bushels, down 3 percent from December 1, 2019, according to the December 1st Agricultural Survey and December Grain Stocks Report conducted by the Mountain Regional Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA.
All corn stocks stored on farms amounted to 55.00 million bushels, down 2 percent from a year ago. All corn stored off farms amounted to 39.06 million bushels, down 4 percent from a year ago. Off-farm oat stocks in Colorado were estimated at 92,000 bushels, up 62,000 bushels from last year. Off-farm sorghum stocks totaled 6.15 million bushels on December 1, 2020, down 9 percent from a year ago.
The U.S. Department of Agricultureâs National Agricultural Statistics Service released December cotton production reports from around the High Plains, Dec. 10.
Cotton production in Kansas is forecast to reach 320,000 bales, up 14% from 2019. Kansas cotton farmers are on track to harvest 195,000 acres, up 44,000 acres from last year and a record high number if realized. Yields, however, are down 102 pounds per acre from last year, a forecast 788 pounds per acre.
In New Mexico cotton gins had processed 22,700 running bales of all cotton by Dec. 1, and Arizona gins had processed 142,500 running bales of all cotton, according to the Mountain Regional Field Office.