Low prices pull down U.S. crop plantings

Farmers say they’ll plant the third-largest amount of corn grown since World War II and the third-highest soybean area on record, superlatives that disguise some of the bad news in the annual USDA Prospective Plantings report. The slump in commodity prices since 2013 is driving down the total area planted in the eight major U.S. field crops: wheat,… » Read More

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