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USDA crop production outlook shocks producers
Aug 12, 2019, 15:51 PM
by
Ann Gregson
On Monday the USDA raised its 2019 corn production outlook.
“I was shocked. It just seems like they’re not getting a good handle on the numbers.”
Former Illinois Ag Director and former Illinois Farm Bureau President Phillip Nelson says farmers are having a hard time believing the numbers.
“We thought that they would lower it, we didn’t know how much, but they raised it on top of all the prevented planting acres that are out there and a crop that is in trouble.”
He tells Brownfield some private firms have a better handle on the numbers than USDA does.
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