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US Farmers Plant Fewest Wheat Acres Since 1913

This article also indicates concern.

A government report shows the nation's farmers planted the fewest winter wheat acres this season since 1913.

The Agriculture Department reported Tuesday that the total acres of winter wheat for 2010 is 37.1 million acres, down 14 percent nationwide from last year.

The agency blames poor weather, low prices and the late row crop harvest for the decrease

[Mr. Lucky]

This is a good sign. Wheat is planted in the United States largely in spite of market forces, not in response to them.

Farmers' shifting production from very heavily subsidized wheat planting to crops demanded by the marketplace should be a cause for celebration, not whining.

[griswold3]

Ding!

[MNJohnnie]

The agency blames poor weather, low prices and the late row crop harvest for the decrease

That would indicate Rogers is talking out his butt. Low prices are a sign of surplus, not scarcity.