Despite coronavirus pandemic, farmers plan to plant a record corn crop
Spooked by the China-U.S. trade war, American farmers say they will plant so much corn that production could near 16 billion bushels for the first time. “We’ll be swimming in corn,” said economist Todd Hubbs of the University of Illinois. Growers also could reap the fourth-largest soybean crop on record as plantings of the two… » Read More
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