date:Aug 25, 2014
dwest states, the biggest growing region, taking random samples by counting the number of kernels on corn ears and pods on soybean plants. Editors of the Pro Farmer newsletter will issue final estimates of US output today, partly based on this weeks measurements.
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In Illinois, where the USDA predicted that yields will be 188 bushels an acre on average, the tour estimated 197 bushels an acre, up 16 per cent from the same areas surveyed last year. In Iowa, preliminary samples showed