http://www.usda.gov/nass/PUBS/TODAYRPT/crop1115.pdf
Soybean production is forecast at a record 3.98 billion bushels, up 2 percent from October and up 1 percent from last
year. Based on November 1 conditions, yields are expected to average 48.3 bushels per acre, up 1.1 bushels from last
month and up 0.8 bushel from last year. Area for harvest in the United States is forecast at 82.4 million acres, unchanged
from last month.The South Carolina farmer has been brutalized this year. Most of them need help and would gladly take it. How much help and where it would come from is the big question.Corn production is forecast at 13.7 billion bushels, up less than one percent from the October forecast, but down 4 percent
from last year’s record production. Based on conditions as of November 1, yields are expected to average 169.3 bushels
per acre, up 1.3 bushels from the October forecast but 1.7 bushels below the 2014 average. If realized, this will be the
second highest yield and third largest production on record for the United States. Area harvested for grain is forecast at
80.7 million acres, unchanged from the October forecast but down 3 percent from 2014.
That being said, ain't no one in danger of starving because of our corn and soybean failure here in South Carolina.
I talked to a guy yesterday that was looking to contract 20K bu corn for next year... To buy.
Because that's how much deer corn he sold at his store this year.
Think about that.
Twenty Thousand bushels of corn. To put out for deer. From one store.
So. Yea.
We can talk about the incredible loss of income faced by local farmers. And it is huge. It will put some farmers out of business, and that hurts me. Too many more go out of business and I will be out of a job, too.
But save the "We're gonna starve" hysterics for a bad year on a national or global scale.
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