Crop production expected to increase for 2013

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Story Created: Mar 21, 2013 at 5:39 PM CDT

Story Updated: Mar 21, 2013 at 6:20 PM CDT

The latest farm survey shows that U.S. farmers are ready to increase production of corn and soybeans for the upcoming planting season.
Farmers are expected to plant 97.43 million acres of corn.

That's slightly up .3 percent from 2012. The biggest jump could be seen in soybeans.

Farmers say they want to plant over 79 million acres. An increase of 2.5 percent.

The survey talked with more than 1700 farmers.

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