Persistent low prices to reduce US crop area by 5 percent

Farmers will scale back plantings of the eight major field crops by nearly 5 percent – a total of 12.3 million acres – over the next five years in response to sustained, lower commodity prices, projects the Agriculture Department. The biggest cutbacks would be in wheat, down 8 percent, and soybeans, down 7 percent, from… » Read More

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