US. Corn Acres Will Adjust, Soybean Acres Unclear

An extension ag economist says a wetter-than-usual spring has impacted planted corn and soybean acres in the United States.

Ben Brown with the University of Missouri says the Northern Plains likely has more corn.

“North and South Dakota, western Minnesota, and pockets of western Iowa where it’s been dry, where I think we’ll see more corn. I think they might also have a net gain of principal crop acres, in total.”

But Brown says other areas of the country will likely lose corn, cotton, and rice acres to prevent plant.

“There are struggles in western Kentucky, southern Illinois, Ohio, and southern states.”

Brown says farmers will still likely plant close to USDA’s estimate of 95 million acres of corn, but the wild card could be soybeans.

“Did we lose more soybeans than we thought, either by soybeans switching to corn or just people taking prevent plant and it’s showing up as lower totals of planted soybean acres?”

The USDA’s acreage report is scheduled to be released on Monday, June 30.

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