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Cereal production

Observed

Production of primary cereals (wheat, rice, maize, barley, oats, rye, millet, sorghum and others) harvested for dry grain, in tonnes.

Ingestedfrom Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsfreshJSON export
Current value, United States
454.99Mtonnes
period 2024
Geography
United States (USA)
Observation date
2024
Unit
tonnes
Frequency
annual
Ingested
2026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1-year change-7.64Mworsening-1.65%2023 to 2024from 462.63M to 454.99M tonnes
10-year trend+0.27% per yearimproving+2.74%2014 to 2024compound annual growth rate; total +12.14M tonnes, from 442.85M to 454.99M tonnes
Historical series

Cereal production, United States

Observed
100M200M300M400M500M600M19611970198019902000201020202024TONNES454.99M
64 observations, 1961 to 2024latest point emphasised
Data table (64 rows)
Cereal production, United States: 64 observations from 1961 to 2024, values from 160.94M to 503.47M tonnes. Latest 454.99M tonnes in 2024. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (tonnes)Source revisionIngested at
2024454,987,916.062025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2023462,631,157.552025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2022408,899,960.32025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2021450,200,713.332025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2020433,259,869.822025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2019420,873,692.842025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2018439,710,828.462025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2017440,271,775.022025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2016503,466,147.242025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2015431,870,370.622025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2014442,849,0902025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2013434,308,4502025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2012356,210,1242025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2011385,545,255.772025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2010401,126,329.742025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2009418,666,166.072025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2008402,399,9362025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2007415,130,8602025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2006338,336,8002025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2005366,436,345.762025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2004389,023,763.412025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2003348,247,631.262025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2002297,143,451.842025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2001324,994,633.582025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2000342,631,5062025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1999335,364,3642025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1998349,425,744.462025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1997336,582,161.492025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1996335,780,123.062025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1995277,601,2102025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1994355,934,923.572025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1993259,105,342.372025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1992353,025,147.362025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1991280,063,390.62025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1990312,410,6042025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1989284,238,0582025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1988206,528,1002025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1987280,494,0472025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1986315,331,2162025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1985347,118,2162025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1984314,749,5002025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1983207,657,6042025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1982333,103,7552025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1981330,889,5282025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1980269,883,9822025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1979302,625,5802025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1978276,602,5422025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1977266,014,4692025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1976258,200,0972025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1975249,283,7432025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1974204,617,5052025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1973237,683,0062025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1972228,117,8662025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1971237,624,4612025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1970186,860,7512025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1969205,288,1702025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1968202,538,4232025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1967208,158,0552025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1966184,444,8802025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1965183,602,6172025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1964160,937,0792025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1963174,812,4872025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1962162,455,7802025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1961163,619,9782025-12-312026-09-07 20:00 UTC
185 geographies have observations for this metric
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT (bulk download service), series QCL:1717:5510
Definition

What this measures

Total production of the FAO primary cereals group (wheat, rice, maize, barley, oats, rye, millet, sorghum, buckwheat, quinoa, fonio, triticale, canary seed, mixed grain and cereals n.e.c.), relating to crops harvested for dry grain only; cereals harvested for hay, green feed, silage or grazing are excluded. Rice is reported as paddy. FAOSTAT domain QCL, item Cereals primary (1717), element Production (5510), unit t. Annual.

Direction
higher is better
Geography level
country
Slug
cereal-production
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
Classification
Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
Source organization
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT (bulk download service)
Series ID
QCL:1717:5510last fetch: ok
Source links
License and attribution
Approved with attribution
FAO. 2026. FAOSTAT: [Domain name]. Accessed on [DD Month YYYY]. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data. Licence: CC-BY-4.0. Data used with attribution and not for or in conjunction with the promotion of a commercial enterprise, product or service.
Terms of use
Last source update
2025-12-31(source revision label as published by the provider)
Last ingestion
last successful runfresh
Last run
success2026-10-19 00:15 UTC
Parser version
faostat-bulk/1.0.0
Methodology version
1.0
Quality and confidence
FAOSTAT revises history in place; each revision is stored as a new row labelled with the domain's DateUpdate. Aggregates other than World and former countries (USSR, Sudan (former), ...) are not stored.
Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 100,000,000,000 tonnes.
64 periods with values for this geography, 1961 to 2024.
Revisions
Values reported for the latest period (2024) by each source revision ingested. Earlier rows are never deleted; the newest ingested row is shown as current.
Source revisionValue (tonnes)Ingested atStatus
2025-12-31454,987,916.062026-09-07 20:00 UTCcurrent
No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.