US farmers ready to meet domestic and world demand for coarse grains

US grain production is the talk of the world as USDA announced the 2011 farmer planting intentions of 92.2 million acres of corn, three million acres of barley and 5.6 million acres of sorghum. For corn, this represents a nearly four million-acre increase from 88.2 million acres in 2010, approaching the 93.5 million acres in 2007, which was the largest corn acreage since World War II.

With grain prices, world food demand and corn stocks on everyone’s mind,grain customers worldwide are keenly focused on US planting intentions this season. “This healthy expansion of corn planted area comes at a time when world coarse grains demand is increasing,” said Thomas C. Dorr, US Grains Council president and CEO. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine from Perendale Publishers.