Corn, soybean crops beat record forecasts

The updated numbers also would mean Ohio’s overall corn for grain production for 2009 — 546.3 million bushels — would edge out the old record of 541.5 million bushels in 2007.

Ohio’s average soybean yield also was revised upward 1 bushel to 49 bushels per acre in 2009. Total production of 222 million bushels also is a record and is up 38 percent from 2008.

Corn and soybean production nationwide also was the largest on record.