An ag economist says the six million acre decline in crop acres in USDA’s Prospective Plantings report aren’t likely to reappear.

Joe Janzen, at the University of Illinois, tells Brownfield…

“We do see some big swings in acreage from the March report to later in the year, but corn and soybean acres, if those acres go up by 1%, that would be a substantial increase.”  He says, “And that’s just not even enough to get back to where we thought the size of this crop might be.”

Janzen says the drop was a surprise, especially in corn, and the economics could lead to a further decline in U.S.

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