USDA Budget report sees 2010 US corn 12.96 bln bu, soy 3.3 bln
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture
Department projected a corn crop of 12.96 billion bushels and a
soybean crop of 3.23 billion bushels in 2010 as part of
preparing its budget proposal for the new fiscal year.
That would be the second-largest soybean crop after the
2009 record and the third-largest corn crop after 2009 and
2007.
The projections are based on conditions in November 2009
and were provided to Reuters by USDA on Tuesday.
USDA is scheduled to release its first detailed projections
of plantings, harvest and use of major U.S. crops on Feb. 11.
USDA projections of major U.S. crops in 2010
2010
Corn Wheat Soybean Up Cot Rice
Plant (Mln ac) 88.0 55.0-A 76.5 10.5 3.10
Harvest (Mln ac) 80.8 46.8 75.5 9.5 3.08
Crop 12,960 2,000 3,230 15.5 219.7
Major U.S. crop plantings, output in 2009-B
2009
Corn Wheat Soybean Up Cot Rice
Plant (Mln ac) 86.5 59.1 77.5 9.01 3.14
Harvest (Mln ac) 79.6 49.9 76.4 7.55 3.10
Crop 13,151 2,216 3,361 12.01 219.9
Corn, wheat, soybeans in millions of bushels, cotton in
millions of 480-lb (218-kg) bales, rice in millions of
hundredweight.
A-On Jan. 12, USDA estimated winter wheat plantings for 2010
harvest at 37.1 million acres, smallest since 1913.
B-Based on field surveys and interviews of farmers.
(Reporting by Charles Abbott; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
((chuck.abbott@thomsonreuters.com; +1 202 898 8319))
Keywords: USDA CROPS
