Despite numerous difficulties, including weather and disease, farmers have set numerous records for both yields and production.

According to the United States Department of Agriculture’s 2025 Crop Production Annual Summary, last year’s growing season saw Iowa’s second-highest corn yield at 210 bushels per acre, setting an all-time record for corn production at 2.77 billion bushels. Last year also saw Iowa’s all-time record soybean yield at 63.5 bushels per acre, and was Iowa’s third-highest overall soybean production at 596 million bushels.

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig says the 2025 growing season tested Iowa’s farmers with highly variable conditions, but those farmers delivered a “historic and record-breaking crop.” Naig says the productivity comes at a time of stress in the agriculture industry with tight margins driven by high input costs and continued pressure from low commodity prices. Naig says that reversing that stress comes down to using more of what is grown and raised in the state and country. Naig stated the need for Congress to pass a modern, five-year farm bill that allows for certainty and enacts nationwide year-round E15 fuel. Doing so, Naig says, would create more than two billion bushels of additional annual demand for corn.

The 2025 Crop Production Annual Summary is released every January by the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. It includes a national summary, as well as state summaries.