date:Feb 26, 2013
d acreage projections for corn and soybeans released Friday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture were in line with its own sales trends, but that its yield outlook for corn was a surprise.
The USDA projected a record-breaking crop of 14.53 billion bushels this year, with an average yield of 163.6 bushels per acre, up 40.2 bushels from last year's drought-plagued crop.
The USDA's projection that yields would rebound from last year's drought and resume trend-line increases has a whole set of as