Weekly Outlook: Friendly Reports
US - The USDA’s Prospective Plantings report indicates that US producers intend to plant less acreage in 2009 than in 2008. Planting intentions for all crops included in the March survey are 7.8 million acres less than acreage seeded to those crops in 2008. Including acreage of hay intended for harvest, the decline is about 7.6 million, writes Darrel Good, Extension Economist at the University of Illinois.
1 April 2009
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