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Record Corn Production Forecast For Louisiana
By Mr Ethanol | September 12, 2007
Natchez Democrat:
Corn production in Louisiana is expected to reach an all-time high, 116.8 million bushels, after farmers devoted more acres to the higher-priced crop.
In spite of drier conditions earlier this summer, the crop is expected to produce a record yield of 160 bushels per acre, 12 bushels better than the previous high reached in 2001, and dwarf last year’s production of 40.6 million bushels, the Louisiana field office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Wednesday.
‘‘This is amazing,’’ the agency’s deputy director, Sammye Crawford, said. ‘‘When you’re looking at a crop, you’ve got everybody and his brother planting corn — many of them have probably never grown corn before — and you’re blowing out the state record yield by 12 bushels to the acre? That’s kind of amazing.’’
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