date:Mar 28, 2013
nto production. Some areas of the country that normally are not big corn producers are expected to plant more corn and the marginal increases are expected to push total planted acres at near 97.3 million acres (average of analysts).
If this number ends up being correct, it would represent the largest number of corn acres planted since 1936 but only slightly higher than the acres planted last year. As last year showed, planting a lot of acres does not guarantee a record crop but, if weather cond