date:Oct 18, 2012
China is headed for its second straight record corn harvest, says the U.S. Grains Council, which recently returnedfrom a tour of China's fields.
Due to the lack of data on China's corn acreage, USGC doesn't estimate China's total corn crop. But based on yield samples from fields in the major growing areas, USGC expects the 2012 harvest to rise about 5 to 6 million metric tons above the 2011 record, or about 3 percent.
That's roughly in line with USDA's estimates, which call for 200 million ton