USDA reports 92.7 million acres of corn in 2021, which is up 2% or 1.87 million acres from 2020. USDA pegs the 2021 soybean crop at 87.6 million acres, which up 5% from 2020.
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Smithfield Foods to Pay $83 Million to Settle Pork Price-Fixing Claims
The settlement with Smithfield resolves antitrust claims by "direct" purchasers such as Maplevale Farms that accused the nation's largest pork companies of having fixed prices beginning in 2009.
