date:Aug 19, 2013
.9 million acres in June. If realized harvested area would be up slightly from 2012 and the second highest on record.
Mr. Harris noted that only 58% of the crop in the 18 major states was setting pods as of Aug. 11, down 10 percentage points from the five-year average, meaning the crop may be vulnerable to a potential freeze event into the first or second week of September. He added that, despite the overall cool, wet spring and summer in the Midwest, there continue to be pockets of excessively