[HN Gopher] Crop Report: USA spring wheat production up over 50%...
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       Crop Report: USA spring wheat production up over 50%, record high
       for soybeans
        
       Author : Kon-Peki
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2022-08-12 20:38 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (release.nass.usda.gov)
 (TXT) w3m dump (release.nass.usda.gov)
        
       | jerkstate wrote:
       | It looks like an increase from 330 million bushels "other spring
       | wheat" in 2021 to 511 million bushels in 2022. This is out of a
       | total of 1.65 billion bushels in 2021 and 1.78 billion bushels in
       | 2022.
       | 
       | for comparison, Ukraine exports about 900 million bushels per
       | year and Russia exports about 1.5 billion bushels per year.
        
       | WaitWaitWha wrote:
       | >Corn Production Down 5 Percent from 2021
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       | >Soybean Production Up 2 Percent from 2021
       | 
       | >Cotton Production Down 28 Percent from 2021
       | 
       | >Winter Wheat Production Down Less Than 1 Percent from July
       | Forecast
       | 
       | This is directly from the first paragraph of the release
       | referenced.
        
         | ars wrote:
         | > Other spring wheat: Production is forecast at 512 million
         | bushels, up 2 percent from the previous forecast and up 55
         | percent from 2021.
         | 
         | Spring what is different from Winter wheat.
        
       | dirtyid wrote:
       | I like the nicely formated txt file, but why is it in a txt file?
       | Could use a nice warez .nfo header... wonder if there's an
       | official gov ASCII file header.
        
         | chaps wrote:
         | I'd be willing to bet it's because some trader's tooling
         | written 20 years ago broke after a format change so they
         | successfully raised hell to make sure it would stay the same
         | format forever. Probably perl.
        
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