USDA says surveys show Nebraska farmers to plant 9.2M acres to corn, up 1 pct from 2009
By APWednesday, March 31, 2010
2010 Nebraska corn acreage expected to rise 1 pct
LINCOLN, Neb. — Following a record harvest last year, Nebraska farmers are planning to plant 9.2 million acres of corn this year.
U.S. Department of Agriculture says that would be an acreage increase of 1 percent over 2009.
The final USDA survey for 2009 says Nebraska’s record corn crop was an estimated 1.58 billion bushels. That beat the 2007 record by 8 percent.
The USDA also says its survey earlier this month suggests that Nebraska farmers will plant 4.9 million acres of soybeans, 2 percent more than 2009.
A separate USDA report issued Wednesday says 906 million bushels of corn were being stored in Nebraska as of March 1 — 12 percent more than was on hand a year earlier.
The soybean storage was 91 million bushels, down 8 percent from 2009.
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