Farm Futures survey sees more US corn acres in 2019, fewer soy

 CHICAGO: US farmers are likely to plant a 90.9 million acres (36.78 milion hectares)of corn in 2019, up about 2 percent from the previous year, and 85.9 million acres (34.76 million hectares) of soybeans, down nearly 4 percent, according to a Farm Futures survey of nearly 1,000 growers released on Friday.

The plantings survey, conducted by email from March 4 to March 21, projected US all-wheat plantings for harvest in 2019 at 45.9 million acres (18.57 million hectares).