New Mexico’s corn crop expected to grow in 2017

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Federal agriculture officials say New Mexico’s corn crop is expected to be slightly bigger in 2017.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s statistics service says a survey in March of growers in the state indicate they are planning to plant about 125,000 acres of corn this year. That’s enough to cover 195 square miles (505 square kilometers).
Sorghum and cotton planting also is expected to be up this year, but the surveys show the peanut acreage wil