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USDA’s end-of-March Prospective Plantings report always brings a few surprises. This year will likely be the same.

USDA’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates for January reflect higher ending stocks for both corn and soybeans.

The Delta farmer’s ardor for corn has cooled in the face of lower prices and high input costs. Soybeans, cotton and rice acres should gain as a result.

After all the hoopla about this morning’s USDA reports, we know one thing: They are outdated and they will change. Let’s look beyond the published numbers.

It’s been almost a week since the USDA released its January crop production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports, showing a big corn crop became bigger and record-setting at 176.6 bushels per acre.

When the January crop production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WADSE) reports were released, U.S. Farm Report conducted a Twitter poll to see how, if at all, farmers would adjust their planting intentions for the spring after corn yielded a record high 176.1 bushels per acre.

Russia’s Blizzard of the Century Is a Blessing for Wheat Fields

As the week begins, Brian Splitt, a broker with Allendale Inc., and Tommy Grisafi, branch broker of Advance Trading, are talking to AgDay host Clinton Griffiths to discuss what they’re watching in commodity markets.

The trade is trying to figure out just how much corn will get harvested this year, which Pro Farmer’s Brian Grete is calling the “impossible puzzle.”

AgWeb.com will have full coverage of USDA’s March 29 reports, following the 11 a.m. Central Time releases.