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Crop Production Mixed Bag
Published Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 04:52 AM
The 2008 corn crop was the second largest in history, with production set at 12.1 billion bushels, down 7 percent from 2007. The 2008 soybean crop production was up 11 percent over the previous year. And U.S. peanut farmers set a new production record high in 2008 at 5.15 billion pounds.
But the cotton crop continues to be depressed. Total 2008 upland cotton crop production was at 12.6 million bales, down 31 percent over 2007 and was the lowest total production number since 1989.
NASS’ 2008 Winter Wheat Seedings report estimated the planted area for harvest in 2009 is 42.1 million acres, down 9 percent from 2008.
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