By David B. Strickland
Poultry Times staff
dstrickland@poultrytimes.com
WASHINGTON — Higher yields of corn are giving the grain record high projections from the USDA.
In its November "Feed Outlook," the USDA's Economic Research Service noted that the 2016/2017 corn yield projection was 1.9 bushels to 175.3 bushels per acre from the October forecast, which amounts to a 168 million bushel gain to 15.2 billion bushels, and that corn supply is at 17 billion bushels, which is a record.
"Corn stocks are projected the highest since 1987/1988 at 2.4 billion bushels. . .
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