date:May 10, 2013
l for the title of world's largest corn exporter.
US farmers will plant 97.3 million acres of the crop - the most since 1936 - to take advantage of high prices brought on by last year's drought, the worst since the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, the USDA said.
As of May 5, US farmers had sown only 12 percent of their corn goal, compared to an average of 47 percent reached by that date over the years, according to the USDA.
Farmers would have to work around the clock just to reach a planting rate of