'NEBRASKA EXPECTS TO PLANT MORE CORN, BEANS, SUNFLOWERS'

(Nebraska Ag Connection) -- Nebraska Ag Connection reports that Nebraska producers "expect to increase acreage planted to corn, soybeans, dry edible beans, and sunflowers, decreasing acreage devoted to hay, sorghum, sugarbeets, and wheat (sown last fall), while leaving oat acreage unchanged from a year ago," according to USDA. "Nebraska corn growers expect to plant 9.2 million acres for all purposes in 2009, up 1% from 2009," while "soybean growers intend to plant 4.9 million acres, up 2% from last year." http://www.nebraskaagconnection.com/story-state.php?Id=218&yr=2010>