Arizona Farmland Insights

In Arizona, the top commodities based on planted acres are hay, lettuce, and cotton. Hay leads with 345,000 acres, yielding 2.6 million tons, while lettuce, primarily head lettuce, is grown on 30,200 acres with a production of 11.6 million hundredweight (cwt). Cotton is planted on 92,000 acres, producing 277,000 480-lb bales.