Monday, January 15, 2018

U.S. harvest set records

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says farmers have harvested record crops for soybeans, peanuts, canola, rapeseed and hops.

The soybean harvest was up by two per cent, the corn harvest down by four per cent.

The big increases were for peanuts, up by 30 per cent and hops, up by 20 per cent.