USDA predicts record acreage to corn

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Farmers in the United States are expected to plant more acres to corn in 2012 than any year since 1937.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture?s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) on Friday released its Prospective Plantings report, pegging expected U.S. corn acres in 2012 at 95.9 million, up four per cent from 2011.

"If realized, this will be the largest corn acreage in the United States since 1937, when producers planted 97.2 acres of corn," NASS said in a release.

The report provides USDA?s first official survey-based estimates of U.S. farmers? 2012 planting intentions, based on surveys conducted during the first two weeks of March.

Farmers in Iowa, the top U.S. corn-growing state, intend to set a new record for the state by planting 14.6 million acres, up four per cent from 2011. Growers in Idaho, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota also intend to plant record-high acreages.

The largest year-over-year increase is expected in North Dakota, where farmers who were flooded out in 2011 expect to plant 3.4 million acres of corn, up 52 per cent from last year.

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