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USDA: 2025 U.S. corn production topped 17 billion bushels

The USDA says farmers produced a record 17.021 billion bushels of corn in 2025. That followed an increase in last year’s average yield figure, up a half a bushel to an all-time high 186.5 bushels pe

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