NASS updates 2025 U.S. sugarcane forecast, outlines upcoming report schedule

The National Agricultural Statistics Service on its monthly briefing released an updated forecast for 2025 U.S. sugarcane production and then outlined the agency's upcoming release schedule, agency staff said. Anthony Prahleman, Acting Chief of the NASS Crops Branch, described the sugarcane revision as the only new NASS release for the month.

Prahleman said harvested area for the 2025 crop is forecast at about 949,000 acres, up roughly 0.5 percent from the prior forecast, with an average yield of 37.8 tons per acre. Production is estimated at nearly 35.9 million tons, an increase of about 1.4 percent from the previous forecast and roughly 4.3 percent above 2024; if realized, Prahleman said, this would be the highest U.S. sugarcane production since 2020. "The only new information NASS released today was an updated forecast of 2025 U.S. sugarcane production," Prahleman said.

Prahleman also notified audiences of several upcoming NASS releases and events: the farms and land in farms report (Feb. 13), a catalog release (Feb. 20), the 2024 census of horticultural specialties (Feb. 26), the monthly agricultural prices report (Feb. 27), the Crop Production (WASDE‑adjacent) release in early March and other routine products. He reminded listeners that NASS will host a social‑media question‑and‑answer session at 1:30 p.m. Eastern on the day of the briefing and that official estimates on which the briefing is based are available on the NASS website.

Prahleman emphasized that the briefing is designed to match the official record and that, if discrepancies appear, the published estimates should be considered authoritative. "As a reminder, today's report and all NASS reports and data can be found on our website," he said.

The briefing was handed over to the World Agricultural Outlook Board for the monthly WASDE review and closed after the WAOB presentation.