USDA boosts corn, soybean harvest to new records

AP Photo/Nati Harnik In this Wednesday, Sept. 10 photo, soy beans, foreground, and corn grow in a field in Springfield, Neb. The nation's corn and soybean farmers will bring in by far the largest harvest ever this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday.

 Nati Harnik

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The nation’s corn and soybean farmers will bring in by far the largest harvest ever this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday in a new report.

Corn farmers are expected to harvest nearly 14.4 billion bushels of corn, up from last year’s 13.9 billion bushel record. The yield of 172 bushels per acre is significantly higher than the previous record set in 2009 of 165 bushels per acre.

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