{"id":24962,"date":"2025-03-31T06:28:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T10:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=24962"},"modified":"2025-03-31T06:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T10:28:31","slug":"acreage-estimates-put-national-corn-figure-at-95-million-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/acreage-estimates-put-national-corn-figure-at-95-million-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"Acreage estimates put national corn figure at 95 million acres"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>MARK DORENKAMP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Brownfield Ag News<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Private estimates are coming in ahead of USDA\u2019s Prospective Plantings report at the end of the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matt Bennett with AgMarket.Net tells Brownfield they surveyed growers across the U.S. and found more than half of respondents plan to grow more corn and less soybeans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom that and then from personal conversations (with farmers) we ended up at a 95.39 million acreage estimate for corn and 82.75 (million) for soybeans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says ongoing pressure on soybean futures is a big factor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen bean prices continue lower, and with that being the case it certainly makes it tough on producers to come in here and say \u2018hey I\u2019ve got a cash price for next fall under $10 and get really excited about planting beans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bennett says AgMarket.Net expects U.S. wheat acres to be above 47 million in 2025 thanks to strong global demand for feed grains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARK DORENKAMP Brownfield Ag News Private estimates are coming in ahead of USDA\u2019s Prospective Plantings report at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-24962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ag","tag-ag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC_0737-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1696&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24964,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24962\/revisions\/24964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}