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Will Soybeans Have Higher Returns than Corn in 2016? | AgroNews

By – Jessie Scott

‘There is a reasonable chance that soybeans will be more profitable than corn in 2016,’ says Gary Schnitkey, economist at University of Illinois. ‘Larger increases in corn costs as compared to soybean costs make it more difficult for corn returns to exceed soybean returns, particularly at low corn and soybean prices.’

Increasing corn costs

In 2000, it took $66 more per acre to…

USDA: U.S. Corn, Soybean Stockpiles Grow | Agriculture.com

"DES MOINES, Iowa (Agriculture.com)— The U.S. corn and soybean stockpiles continue to get larger, while the world crop outputs grow too, according to the USDA Tuesday. 

The governmental agency released its February Supply/Demand and World Crop Production Estimates Tuesday.

As a result, the CME Group corn and soybean markets reacted mostly negatively. At the close, the March corn futures settled…

5X5 – 5. US-NEWS

1 • 5 Agriculture Stories to Read, March 20, 2015 1. Closing the corn yield gap.

"Farmers will have to feed many more people in the coming years, on fewer acres. The problem: How do we do that? Researchers at the University of Illinois say that an intense management system may help.

By using an intensified management system that included increased plant population, transgenic (Bt trait) insect…