Source: Greg D. Horstmeier, PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 4/19/21

There's no time like the present, so farmers seem to say in their response to the spring edition of the DTN/The Progressive Farmer Agriculture Confidence Index. The overall index is 124, solidly in optimistic territory and up 30 points from spring 2020, but down 22 points from the December survey. The drop since winter seems counterintuitive, given that corn and soybean prices continue to be strong, and vaccinations for the novel coronavirus bring the United States closer to broad immunity.

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