Results of the Pro Farmer/Doane planting intentions survey not surprisingly signaled corn acres will decline and soybean acres will increase this year. But our survey surprisingly showed combined corn and soybean acres would decline 900,000 acres from last year to 179.7 million acres, with soybean acres not expected to rise as much as we previously projected.
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We forecast total acres planted to the big four crops (corn, soybeans, wheat and cotton) will increase 1.7 million acres from last year to 240.2 million acres. We expect corn acres to be down 1.5 million acres from 2021 to 91.9 million acres. Soybean acres are predicted to increase 600,000 acres from last year to 87.8 million acres. We anticipate wheat to be planted on 48.5 million acres, up 1.8 million acres from last year. Up 800,000 acres from last year, cotton farmers are expected to plant 12.0 million acres. We foresee 7.0 million acres of sorghum to be planted, down 300,000 acres from 2021.
