As we transition from one year to the next, it has become our habit to make some not-so-fearless forecasts for the upcoming year. With a bow to intellectual honesty, we have also looked back at the year just ended to see if our predictions were any good.As we transition from one year to the next, it has become our habit to make some not-so-fearless forecasts for the upcoming year. The best thing that could happen to such predictions is that they be forgotten. However, with a bow to intellectual honesty, we have also looked back at the year just ended to see if our predictions were any good. Here is how those predictions for 2014 worked out:
We predicted U.S. farmers would reduce corn acreage to about 93 million acres and increase soybean...
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