Articles tagged under: USDA acreage report

Minnesota Farmers Plan More Corn, Less Soybeans in 2025

Published April 1, 2025

Minnesota farmers plan to increase corn, spring wheat, and sugar beet acreage while reducing soybean plantings in 2025, according to USDA projections. Corn acreage is expected to rise by 400,000 acres to 8.6 million, while spring wheat is projected at…

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South Dakota’s 2025 Crop Outlook: More Corn, Fewer Soybeans

Published April 1, 2025

South Dakota farmers plan to increase corn and sunflower acreage this year while reducing soybean and winter wheat plantings, according to USDA’s National Ag Statistics Service Field Office in Sioux Falls. Corn acreage is expected to rise 7 percent to…

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North Dakota Farmers Shift Acreage from Wheat to Corn

Published April 1, 2025

North Dakota farmers plan to plant fewer spring wheat acres this year, with the USDA’s planting intentions report showing a 6 percent decline to just over 5 million acres. Winter wheat acres are also down 4 percent to 120,000 acres,…

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No Big Surprises in USDA Planting Intentions Report

Published March 31, 2025

U.S. farmers are expected to plant 95.3 million acres of corn in 2025, a 5 percent increase from last year, according to the USDA’s latest report. Soybean acreage is estimated at 83.5 million acres, down 4 percent from 2024. Wheat…

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Acreage Adjustments Made in SD

Published July 1, 2024

According to Friday’s USDA acreage report, South Dakota farmers planted 6.1 million acres of corn this spring. That’s down three percent from a year ago. Soybean acres are unchanged from last year at 5.1 million. A total of 870,000 acres…

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MN Farmers Plant 8.1 Million Acre Corn Crop

Published July 1, 2024

Minnesota farmers planted 8.1 million acres of corn, down a half-million acres from a year ago. Soybean acres are estimated at 7.6 million, up 250,000 acres from 2023. Spring wheat acreage totals 1.5 million acres. In Minnesota, dry edible bean…

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ND Soybean Acres Increase, Corn Acres Decline

Published July 1, 2024

In North Dakota, the planted acreage for soybeans is forecast at 6.8 million acres. That’s up ten percent from last year. Spring wheat planting is up one percent at 5.6 million acres. Corn acreage declined six percent from a year…

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A Bearish Corn Acreage Total

Published July 1, 2024

In Friday’s Acreage Report, USDA delivered more corn acres than expected. Going into the report, the high end of the trade estimate for corn acres was 91.3 million acres. USDA topped that with a total of 91.47 million acres. Soybean…

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A Game Changer

Published July 3, 2023

If there was a surprise going into the June quarterly stocks and planted acreage report, traders were expecting it to be in the stocks number. StoneX market analyst Arlan Suderman says the big shock was with the corn acres. "We…

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A Million More Acres

Published March 31, 2023

USDA says farmers intend to plant 92 million acres of corn this spring, about one million more than the February Ag Outlook Forum estimate and the average trade estimate. Soybean acreage is slightly less than the average trade estimate but…

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