Caring for calves, milking cows, chopping corn – pretty much every farmer, as well as non-farmer, remembers exactly what they were doing and where they were 20 years ago on that September day. However, Dan Baginski recalls more of where he wasn’t at on 9/11 than where he was.
The U.S. is on track to produce slightly higher corn and soybean yields compared with estimates released in August. The biggest production increase by USDA occurred in cotton, though.
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