resolves yes if the United States grows more pounds of cabbage in 2024 than it did in 2023.
1,000@Gabrielle , @Ziddletwix , and I convened as a panel of 3 moderators following the mod guidelines to discuss the ambiguity around the resolution here. We took into account everything we can find on the market page and searched for USDA data. In the end, two of us thought it would resolve Yes and one thought N/A. By the mod guidelines we then resolve N/A because this was not unanimous.
@f Could you resolve this? It looks like the total is higher in 2024 because it includes the estimate for North Carolina that was not done in 2023 or earlier years. If the North Carolina estimate is not included, it's lower than 2023.
https://www.producebluebook.com/2025/02/13/usda-2024-vegetable-report-shows-production-declines-in-many-crops/
Cabbage: Production in 2024 totaled 20.7 million cwt, down slightly from 2023 in comparable States. Planted area was estimated at 51,900 acres, down 4 percent from the previous year in comparable States. Area harvested, at 50,800 acres, was down 2 percent from 2023 in comparable States. The value of the crop totaled $642 million, 10 percent more than the previous season in comparable States.
@f @creator @mods Resolve please.
@ChristopherRandles The market creator in the comments below indicated the resolution needs to come from USDA figures, not a summary from some other site.
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Todays_Reports/reports/vegean25.pdf
Page 19 lists Cabbage production:
The 2024 total is higher, not lower, than the 2023 total. The discrepancy is due to the addition of North Carolina into the stats. If you remove North Carolina from 2024, then the 2023 figure is greater than the 2024 figure.
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This is neither a clear Yes nor a clear No. We can't seem to ping the creator in comments so if they don't show up, we will need to ask 3 moderators to weigh in.
I'm seeing a downward trend with a base rate of ~40% of years producing more than the previous since 2000 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/192942/us-cabbage-production-for-fresh-market-since-2000/). Am I missing a reason this is trading so high? I'm not seeing evidence of a shortage this year except in the UK and Ukraine.
