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Crop Review

Montana, Crop Production & Agriculture

Montana produces 3 major field crops across 5.0M acres. The top crop is Wheat with 1.3B bu.

3

Major Crops

5.0M acres

Total Acreage

Wheat

Top Crop

Crop Production in Montana

#CropProductionAcreage
1Wheat1.3B bu1.8M acres
2Hay930.4M bu2.4M acres
3Barley351.3M bu845K acres

Frequently Asked Questions

Montana grows 3 major field crops: Wheat, Hay, Barley.

Wheat is Montana's top crop with 1.3B bu produced across 1.8M acres.

Sources: USDA NASS

Data from USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. Production in bushels, bales, or tons depending on crop.

this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. crop production, acreage, and farm income dataset. The detail above comes directly from the USDA NASS Quick Stats database; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. crops and states.

Every number on this page links back to the USDA NASS Quick Stats database; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.

For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. crops and states with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.

Source: USDA NASS Quick Stats, 2026.