Thursday, January 28, 2010

Good news: record U.S. corn and soybean harvests

On Tuesday January 12, the USDA reported that it projected U.S. corn production at a record 13.2 billion bushels and soybean production at a record 3.361 billion bushels.
This is really good news, since, as one report I read stated, "Despite poor planting conditions, a cool, wet growing season, and an abysmal harvest that still sees corn standing in fields, American farmers shattered records for both yield per acre and total corn production."This was a terrible year for farmers, seeing that the crops were planted extremely late, and then saw lots of rain and snow as they were trying to bring in a late harvest. ...Read the rest of the blog on AnimalAgNet.com.

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