Source: Chuck Abbott, SUCCESSFUL FARMING, 10/13/21


The U.S. soybean hit parade, with record production in 2016, 2017, and 2018, will continue this year with the largest crop ever, the government forecast on Tuesday with the harvest in full swing. A late-summer surge in likely yields per acre prompted the USDA to say the crop will be 2% larger than its previous estimate. This year’s crop, while a mammoth 4.448 billion bushels, would be a hair’s breadth larger — a scant 20 million bushels — than the record set in 2018. Almost all of 

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