I know I’m late to reading this. But just the same… Thanks for kicking ass American Farmers! We wouldn’t be nearly as amazing a country without you.
2009 Crop Year is One for the Record Books, USDA Reports
Corn production is 13.2 billion bushels, 1 percent above the previous record of 13 billion bushels set in 2007, and 9 percent higher than 2008. Corn yields reached an all-time high in 2009 at 165.2 bushels per acre, eclipsing the previous record of 160.3 bushels per acre set in 2004. Planted area, at 86.5 million acres, is the second highest since 1949, behind 2007’s 93.5 million acres.