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USDA raises corn crop estimate but new-crop ending stocks now slightly below 2 billion bushels.
On average, analysts expected a modest decline in corn yield from September, though USDA increased the figure 0.2 bu., with production now estimated at 15.203 billion bu. Soybean production was pegged at 4.582 billion bu., using a yield of 53.1 bu. per acre.
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