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Excerpt from Feed Situation: November 1972 Corn supplies total a record billion bushels, 5 percent larger than last year. With continued strong feed demand from more livestock, domestic use probably will gain 5 percent. Exports are projected at 1 billion bushels, or roughly 200 million above last year's total. Total use, estimated at billion bushels, will exceed output, lowering the carryover next October 1 to around 1 billion bushels. Prices this fall are well above low levels of a year ago and will continue strong into winter. The mid-november corn price of at Chicago was about 30 cents a bushel above the low level of a year before. Prices through the first half of November were influenced by prolonged wet weather which delayed harvest in much of the Midwest. Through mid-november, about half of the 1972 corn cr0p in the Corn Belt had been harvested, compared with about four-fifths normally. Prices this winter and spring will continue to be sensitive to the final outcome of the crop, export developments, and 1973 prospective plantings reports in January and March. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.