• April 4, 2025 – Corn acres come in higher than expected in the Prospective Plantings report. The grain use and outside markets topic this week is trade and tariffs.

• March 28, 2025 – The eastern half of the Corn Belt is dryer than normal with planting season just around the corner. USDA will release its Prospective Plantings report, a survey of farmers’ intended acres for 2025, on Monday March 31. Feed is the focus of the grain use section this week.

• March 21, 2025 – With planting season just a few weeks away, the area of the North Central region under drought is worse than last year in terms of coverage and severity. The difference is the hardest hit areas are now on the western edge of the region whereas last year it was Iowa.

• March 13, 2025 – After significant changes to the supply and demand balance sheet for U.S. corn in December (total use + 200 million bushels) and January (production -276 million bushels), USDA has left the numbers unchanged in February and March.

Mark Welch
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Economist
600 John Kimbrough Blvd
TAMU 2124
College Station, Texas 77843
Tel. (979)845-8011
Fax. (979)845-4906
JMWelch(at)tamu.edu

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