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Become a crop weather reporter
If you are knowledgeable about crops across your county and have Internet access, you qualify to be a weekly crop reporter. It only takes about 10-15 minutes each week to alert USDA of the crop situation in your county using the Internet report form. We will use that information to generate the weekly report of Crop Conditions across the Northeastern Region.
This report is issued weekly during the growing season, April to November, and lists planting, fruiting, and harvesting progress and overall condition of selected crops in major producing states.
You can help alert USDA about crop progress and unusual crop conditions during the growing seasons. Instead of waiting until the crop is in, you can give us an early warning of crop situations that may need our attention for possible assistance.
Annual milk
production
The annual production of milk for Pennsylvania during 2023 was 9.86 billion pounds, down 1% from 2022. Production per cow in Pennsylvania averaged 21,157 pounds for 2023, down 102 pounds from the previous year. The average number of milk cows on farms in Pennsylvania during 2023 was 466,000 head, down 2,000 head from 2022.
Farms and land
in farms
This report was released on Feb. 16. A farm is "any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the year." Government payments are included in sales. Ranches, institutional farms, experimental and research farms, and Indian Reservations are included as farms. Places with the entire acreage enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), Wetlands Reserve Programs (WRP), and other government conservation programs are counted as farms.