U.S. Farmers Plant the Largest Corn Crop Since 1937

By Newsroom America Feeds at 29 Jun 2012

U.S. farmers planted 96.4 million acres of corn, up 5 percent from last year, making it the highest corn acreage in the last 75 years, according to the Acreage report released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). This marks the fourth year in a row of increases in corn acreage in the United States.

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