Farmers Produce Third Largest U.S. Crop on Record

U.S. Farmers harvested the third largest crop on record during the 2010 growing season, according to the USDA Crop Production 2010 Summary report. The report, which was released this week, showed corn production down 5 percent from last year’s record and soybean production missing the mark by 1 percent. Cotton production was up 50 percent from 2009, while wheat production was less than 1 percent lower than last year’s numbers. Learn more or read the report.