● Cash Value: $523 million(2000) $380 million (2001) ● Yearly Production Costs

● Irrigated: $510 per acre ● Non-irrigated: $210 per acre Data on corn grown for grain in Texas show that harvested acres, production, and yield have fluctuated but trended upward from 1978 to the present while price has trended downward. Production for that time period was at a low in 1983 of 104.8 million bushels and a high in 1994 at 238.7 million bushels. In 1980 and 1990 yield was down to 90 bushels per acre but up to 138 bushels per acre in 1997. It was 129 bushels per acre in 1999. Price was $2.45 per bushels in 1978 but only $2.25 per bushel 21 years later in 1999. Price was at a high at $3.39 per bushel in 1983 and a low at $1.78 per bushel in 1986. The trend has been slightly increasing for the percent of total acres harvested and total production from irrigated corn. The percent of acres harvested from irrigated corn has bounced around from between 48 % and 54 % and the percent of production from between 63 % and 85%. Acres harvested, production, and yield of corn for silage in Texas, like shell corn, has shown an increasing trend from 1987 to the present. Yield was at its lowest for the period in 1988 and 1990 at 13 tons per acre and its highest at 23.5 tons per acre in 1997. Yield in 1999 was 21 tons per acre. Commodity Destination