date:Mar 29, 2013
om the previous report were mainly in the soft red winter growing states, the U.S.D.A. said. Winter wheat conditions improved over the winter in much of the hard red winter growing area.
Planted (durum) acreage is expected to be down in all states except South Dakota. If realized, planted acres will be record low in Idaho.
Farmers indicated they intend to plant 97,282,000 acres of corn in 2013, up slightly from 97,155,000 acres in 2012 and near trade expectations that averaged 97.3 million acr