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USDA crop estimates have farmers angered, confused

The USDA’ recent report that indicates crop production for 2019 will only be down slightly has a number of Indiana farmers upset.


With farmers impacted by a 2019 weather pattern that has greatly damaged this crop and the recent Crop Production report issued by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) that forecasted corn production down just from four percent from 2018. That’s a number that most Hoosier farmers would dispute.

 

Scott Gabbard with Shelby County’s Purdue Extension.

 

 

And, that’s even if locally Shelby County is better than most.

 

He says it’s hard to believe that other states can make up for massive losses in several states around the Midwest.

 

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