Acreage battle
Been doing some reading on various US farmer message boards that I frequent. Not surprisingly there is a lot of talk on the topic of "what are you gonna plant this spring".
The general consensus from most is a shift towards beans. Sure there are plenty saying "same as last year", there are even a few saying 100% beans. But the general consensus seems to be "in 2007 I was 60:40 corn:beans, in 2008 I'm going 40:60."
Also interestingly there was quite a lot of 2009 planting talk with the majority suggesting a bigger switch away from corn & into beans then due to even more increased input concerns.
The general consensus from most is a shift towards beans. Sure there are plenty saying "same as last year", there are even a few saying 100% beans. But the general consensus seems to be "in 2007 I was 60:40 corn:beans, in 2008 I'm going 40:60."
Also interestingly there was quite a lot of 2009 planting talk with the majority suggesting a bigger switch away from corn & into beans then due to even more increased input concerns.