Top 10 Oat-Producing US States, 2025

Minnesota leads this top 10 ranking with 14.355 million bushels in the 2025 crop year. North Dakota follows with 13.475 million bushels. The first three states account for 56.6% of the combined published state estimates for this crop.

The source is USDA NASS State Agriculture Overviews for 2025, retrieved on October 20, 2026. We checked the numeric production estimates across the state pages. 19 states have a numeric estimate for this crop; only the ten largest are shown here.

The ranking measures oats harvested for grain. Oat acreage used for forage or left unharvested for grain does not contribute to this grain-production figure. The chart therefore differs from a ranking of all planted oat acres. Original production counts are divided by 1,000,000 to express the values in million bushels. No additional rounding is applied to the stored counts.

These are production estimates for the 2025 harvest, not 2026 forecasts. USDA may revise estimates; the overview snapshot is the reference for this ranking. Missing or unpublished state values are not converted to zero. The three-state share uses the combined reported estimates, not an assumed all-state national total.