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...plants are waist high and flowering ahead of time. Good, dry planting weather came early this year across Iowa and Nebraska, and even scattered flooding has not hurt the promise of a bountiful harvest. Elsewhere in the Midwest, it is much the same, a year so good that Dennis Vercler, news director of the Illinois Farm Bureau, calls it "absolutely phenomenal...
This year's corn crop will be the most dramatic example of U.S. agriculture's relentless surpluses. Because of the almost perversely ideal weather, with exactly the right amount of rain at the proper intervals, says Illinois' Vercler, "crop development is just about the best ever." Last year's corn crop was the largest in history, 8.9 billion bu., of which a record 5 billion bu. is left over in storage. The expected bumper harvest of 8 billion bu. this year, smaller in volume than 1985's because an increasing number of farmers have taken some acreage out of production...
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