Source: MORNING AG CLIPS, 11/14/17

Last Thursday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimated a corn crop for 2017 higher than U.S. farmers have ever realized, coming in with a whopping 175.4 bushels to acre average. That would equate to a record 14.578 billion bushels of corn in 2017. The yield guess was significantly higher than analysts like Mike Zuzolo from Global Commodity Analytics was expecting.

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