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Minnesota corn, soybean & wheat yield by year

USDA NASS state yield estimates for Minnesota, annual (end-of-season) figures only: corn (2010–2025, n = 16), soybeans (2010–2025, n = 16), winter wheat (2010–2018, n = 9). Every figure below is a USDA NASS number for the year shown; nothing is estimated or filled in by AGSIST. Source files updated Oct 6, 2026.

Corn · 2025 USDA NASS
201 bu/ac
  • Highest (2010–2025): 201 in 2025
  • Lowest (2010–2025): 155 in 2011
  • 5-year average (2021–2025): 186.4 bu/ac, n = 5 of 5 years
  • 10-year average (2016–2025): 186.6 bu/ac, n = 10 of 10 years
  • Trend (2010–2025): +1.83 bu/ac per year, n = 16 years (least-squares line, not projected)
Soybeans · 2025 USDA NASS
52.5 bu/ac
  • Highest (2010–2025): 52.5 in 2025
  • Lowest (2010–2025): 39 in 2011
  • 5-year average (2021–2025): 48.5 bu/ac, n = 5 of 5 years
  • 10-year average (2016–2025): 48.5 bu/ac, n = 10 of 10 years
  • Trend (2010–2025): +0.48 bu/ac per year, n = 16 years (least-squares line, not projected)
Winter wheat · 2018 USDA NASS
60 bu/ac
  • Highest (2010–2018): 61 in 2016
  • Lowest (2010–2018): 43 in 2013
  • 5-year average (2014–2018): 54.6 bu/ac, n = 5 of 5 years
  • 10-year average (2009–2018): — the NASS pull on this page starts in 2010, so no full 10-year window ends in 2018
  • Trend (2010–2018): +0.77 bu/ac per year, n = 9 years (least-squares line, not projected)
Current season, kept out of the table above. USDA NASS figures from AGSIST’s state crop file (data/state-stats.json), with that file’s own label:A forecast changes month to month and is not comparable with the annual estimates in the table.

Minnesota yield by year

Newest first. Bushels per acre; planted acres in millions. Source: USDA NASS Quick Stats, state level. — means NASS published no figure for that year; “pending” means NASS has not yet released that crop year’s annual estimate (corn and soybeans come out in January).

YearCorn
bu/ac		Corn
planted, M ac		Soybeans
bu/ac		Soybeans
planted, M ac		Winter wheat
bu/ac
20252018.952.57.15—
20241748.2457.4—
20231858.6487.35—
20221958507.45—
20211778.35477.65—
20201918507.45—
20191747.8446.85—
20181827.9497.7560
20171948.0547.58.1545
20161938.45527.5561
20151888.1507.658
20141568.241.57.3549
20131598.6426.743
20121658.7543.57.0555
20111558.1397.156
20101777.7457.447

Top Minnesota counties by 2025 corn yield

USDA NASS county corn-for-grain yield, 2025, all practices. NASS published a 2025 figure for 62 of the 87 counties in the Atlas; counties without a published figure are not ranked. The last column compares with the Minnesota state yield of 201 bu/ac.

#County2025 bu/acvs state
1Jackson County226.7+25.7
2Cottonwood County225.2+24.2
3Nicollet County224.3+23.3
4Dodge County221.9+20.9
5Brown County221.1+20.1
6Faribault County221.1+20.1
7Blue Earth County218.2+17.2
8Mower County218.2+17.2
9Sibley County217.6+16.6
10Le Sueur County217.1+16.1
How these numbers are made. Yields and planted acres are USDA NASS Quick Stats state estimates, pulled with the reference period pinned to the full year, so in-season monthly forecasts never enter the table. Highest and lowest are over the published years shown, not all-time records. Averages are plain means of the published years in the stated window, printed with how many years they rest on (withheld below 3 of 5 or 6 of 10). The trend is an ordinary least-squares line through every published year (at least 8); it describes the past window and is not a forecast. County figures are NASS county corn yields, all practices, as carried by the AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Wheat here is winter wheat only (NASS “WHEAT, WINTER”); spring wheat and durum are not included. AGSIST’s NASS pull carries no state winter wheat planted-acres series, so no wheat acres column is shown.

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