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Acreage would produce 13.83 bill. bu. crop if trend line yields are realized.
There can be little doubt that NASS acreage and production reports are among the biggest market movers year-in and year-out.
End users struggle to balance old-crop supplies with aggressive demand
Despite less-than-ideal soil conditions and above-normal temperatures, U.S. corn growers harvested the third largest crop on record.
Capacity of off-farm commercial grain storage in the United States totaled 9.74 billion bushels on December 2010, up 3% from December 2009.
Corn for grain production is estimated at 12.4 billion bushels, down 1 percent from the Nov. 1 forecast and 5 percent below the record high production of 13.1 billion bushels set in 2009.