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Indiana Farmers Find Corn, Soybeans Crops Better than Expected.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 1999 by Heikens, Norm
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 27 -- As Indiana farmers wind down harvest, they are discovering that drought hasn't hurt corn and soybeans as much as expected.
But yields still are falling short of average -- an insult on top of the injury of low prices.
Crops are "better than expected, but considerably less than hoped for," said state ag statistician Ralph Gann.
Corn will average 128 bushels per acre, down 4 percent from recent years, Gann said.
Soybeans were hurt worse by the drought. They are projected to yield 9 percent less than average, or 39 bushels per acre.
Corn and soybeans are far and away the dominant crops in Indiana. Corn is planted on 5.9 million acres and soybeans on 5.7 million acres....
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