date:Mar 28, 2013
itions permit, the big plantings should help improve the corn balance sheet. As the lower table below shows, trade expects year over year planting increases in all three major crops.
Wheat plantings, which includes both winter wheat planted last fall and spring wheat to be planted this spring, are expected to be up by 1.3 per cent from a year ago. However, the expectation is that a significant number of winter wheat acres, probably as much as 20-25 per cent of the hard-red winter wheat acres