date:Feb 25, 2014
US farmers will increase soyabean planting by less than expected this spring, and overall acreage of eight major crops is set to decline, the US Department of Agriculture said on Thursday in its first formal outlook for US crops. At its annual Agricultural Outlook conference, the USDA said plantings of the eight major US crops would dip 0.7 percent to 253.8 million acres in 2014/15, despite expectations that overall acreage would likely rise this year.
Cotton and rice plantings will rise, whil