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Show Wheat, Com Estimates Below Last Year Yield The nation's 1951 corn and wheat crops will fall short of 1950 production, produc-tion, according to the latest U. S. Department of Agriculture report. The corn crop for all purposes Is estimated at 3,105 million bushels, bush-els, a decline of 26 million bushels from last year's production, but above the 1940-49 average of 2,981 million bushels. The indicated yield per acre of 36.7 bushels is 0.9 bushels bush-els above the average of 33.9 bushels. bush-els. Production of corn for grain this year is estimated at 2,789 million bushels compared with 2,845 million mil-lion bushels last year. Total wheat production is estimated esti-mated at 994 million bushels, about 3 per cent smaller than the 1950 crop of 1,027 million, and 7 per cent smaller than the average of 1,071 million bushels. Corn and wheat production, however, how-ever, is expected to meet U.S. needs. |