![]() ![]() Many of those acres would shift to corn, helping realign rotations after soybean plantings topped corn for the first time in a generation in 2018. That would take soybean acreage to 87.5 million, compared to the 89.6 million put in the ground this year, a decrease of 2.3%. So growers said they plan to trim seedings by 2 million acres next spring. ![]() soybeans helped pummel prices headed into harvest, and a record crop didn’t help the market either. Some of the choices appear easy to anyone following the headlines. Results were released today on the first day of the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa. But like it or not, growers are starting to place their bets for the coming year according to Farm Futures first survey of 2019 planting intentions. Farmers starting to pencil out options for 2019 crops don’t have many obvious choices in a year dominated by trade disputes, good yields and low prices. ![]()
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