USDA Predicts Largest Corn Crop in History

  
 
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is preparing for what they predict to be the nation’s largest corn crop in history and third largest soybean crop just one year after a drought that devastated crops. In the USDA’s annual August crop production report, the statistics projected a national corn crop of 13.8 billion bushels on 154.4 bushels per acre, 28 percent higher than last year’s 10.7 billion bushels. The previous record was set in 2009 with 13.09 billion bushels.

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