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December 23, 2009
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Wet weather affects corn harvest in USÂ Â
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Little progress was made in the US corn harvest in the week ended Sunday (Dec 20), as it continues to crawl toward completion, which may not come until the spring.
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The US Department of Agriculture said that 95% of the crop was harvested, up from 92% the prior week.
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The harvest has been slow all season due to wet conditions that kept farmers out of the fields, and a snowstorm across the northern and western corn belt earlier this month brought it to a halt.
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"I think we're still at a point where a significant amount of corn is still in the field," said risk management analyst, Jerry Gidel.
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He said the crop yet to be harvested represents 3.97 million acres, or 645 million bushels of a crop expected to be close to 13 billion bushels.Â
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