Acreage decisions may be shifting as planting season approaches. East River LLP owner Tim Hoggarth is seeing farmers trim down their corn acres. The downturn in the ethanol industry is a big part of that decision. “We need to remember ethanol plants take up nearly 40 percent of our U.S. production and if those boys aren’t in production, that will be a big number where we have no where to go with that corn.” For Hoggarth, wheat seed is in demand. “It was like a light switch; I’ve sold more wheat in the last five or so days than I did almost all year.”
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