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USDA Prospective Plantings Report Released.

From USDA.

Prospective Plantings

ISSN: 1949-159X

Released March 30, 2012, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service
(NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA).

Corn Planted Acreage Up 4 Percent from 2011
Soybean Acreage Down 1 Percent
All Wheat Acreage Up 3 Percent
All Cotton Acreage Down 11 Percent

Corn growers intend to plant 95.9 million acres of corn for all purposes in
2012, up 4 percent from last year and 9 percent higher than in 2010. If
realized, this will represent the highest planted acreage in the United
States since 1937 when an estimated 97.2 million acres were planted.

Soybean planted area for 2012 is estimated at 73.9 million acres, down
1 percent from last year and down 5 percent from 2010. Compared with 2011,
planted area is down or unchanged across the Corn Belt and Great Plains with
the exceptions of Illinois, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

All wheat planted area is estimated at 55.9 million acres, up 3 percent from
2011. The 2012 winter wheat planted area, at 41.7 million acres, is up
3 percent from last year but down 1 percent from the previous estimate. Of
this total, about 29.9 million acres are Hard Red Winter, 8.4 million acres
are Soft Red Winter, and 3.5 million acres are White Winter. Area planted to
other spring wheat for 2012 is estimated at 12.0 million acres, down
3 percent from 2011. Of this total, about 11.3 million acres are Hard Red
Spring wheat. Durum planted area for 2012 is estimated at 2.22 million acres,
up 62 percent from the previous year.

All cotton planted area for 2012 is expected to total 13.2 million acres,
11 percent below last year. Upland acreage is expected to total 12.9 million
acres, down 11 percent from 2011. American Pima acreage is expected to total
270,000 acres, down 12 percent from 2011.

This report was approved on March 30, 2012.

Secretary of
Agriculture
Thomas J. Vilsack

Agricultural Statistics Board
Chairperson
Hubert Hamer

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