Farmers will plant about the same size of corn and soybean crops that the trade expected before Thursday's USDA Prospective Plantings report. But, the agency's Grain Stocks report showed there's been major grain rationing, and that meant for a major drop in prices.

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Farmland values -- and the general topic's many subplots, like leasing rates, the consequences of skyrocketing prices and how values will respond to a potential continued drought -- continues to resonate around farm country as a major topic with major implications to bottom lines from the western Plains to the eastern Corn Belt.

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