Arkansas farmers plan to plant 710,000 acres of corn this year, a 42% increase over last year’s acreage, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2025 Prospective Plantings Report published Monday.
In a news release, Jason Kelley, extension wheat and feed grains agronomist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, said that the increase from last year means a return to a typical Arkansas summer.
“In 2024, we had a large decline in acreage compared to the previous year, so this year I would have expected acres to be back up,” Kelley said. “So 710,000 acres are really back up to ‘normal’ levels.”
Arkansas farmers are “still a long way” from the 850,000 acres planted in 2021 and 2023, Kelley said. The 850,000 acres was the most corn planted in the state since 1954.
Farmers in the state had planted an estimated 22% of corn acres as of March 30, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service said.
Price stability has probably made corn more popular among farmers, said Scott Stiles, extension agricultural economics program associate for the Division of Agriculture.
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