USDA puts off corn harvest adjustments despite weather problems

Washington

A LATE start to corn planting, excessive rains in some key production areas and parched soils in others did not jar the US Agriculture Department's expectations for another bumper crop in 2017.

The government left its outlook for both US corn production and yield unchanged in its supply and demand report released on Friday, delaying for at least a month any attempt to assess the problems that the adverse weather may have caused to crop development.