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| - The U.S. Agriculture Department issued the following crop forecasts for 2008. The
department also projected ethanol distillers would use 4.1billion bushels of U.S. corn to make the alternative fuel
during 2008/09, and 3.5 billion lbs of soyoil would be used to make biodiesel.
USDA projections of major U.S. crops in 2008
2008 Corn Wheat Soybean Cotton Rice
Plant (Mln ac) 90.0 64.0 71.0 9.5 2.70
Harvest (Mln ac) 82.7 54.4 70.1 8.6 2.69
Crop-A 12,810 2,330 2,950 15.0 191.0
End stocks-A 1,243 538 169 3.7 22.1
A-Corn, wheat, soybeans in millions of bushels, cotton in millions of 480-lb (218 kg) bales, rice in millions of hundredweight.
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