date:Aug 19, 2013
This years soybean crop looks a bit like an also-ran compared to the expected record corn crop of close to 14 billion bus, but 2013 represents an important recovery year for the oilseed that suffered significant yield damage last year as a result of the drought afflicting most of the Midwest and High Plains.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture in its first survey-based estimate of the season forecast U.S. 2013 soybean production at 3,255 million bus, down 5% from the July trend-based projection