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Ken Cook

Ken Cook is president of Environmental Working Group, a public interest research and advocacy organization known for its Farm Subsidy Database. The author of dozens of articles, opinion pieces and reports on agricultural, public health and environmental topics, "[Cook's] fingerprints can be found on nearly two decades of U.S. farm law" (Omaha World Herald). Read more about Ken.

Craig Cox

Craig Cox is EWG Midwest Vice President. He Mulches from EWG's office in Ames, IA. Prior to EWG, Craig served as Executive Director of the Soil and Water Conservation Society and was Acting USDA Deputy Under-Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, and Special Assistant to the Chief of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Michelle Perez

Michelle Perez is EWG's Senior Agriculture Analyst. She has a BA in Biology from Occidental, a Masters from the University of Maryland (UMD) and is finishing up a PhD in agricultural-environmental policy at UMD.

Don Carr

Don Carr is EWG's Press Secretary for agriculture and public lands issues. Prior to EWG, Don worked as a Communications Director for the DNC in his home state of South Dakota and on former Senate Leader Tom Daschle's 2004 reelection campaign.

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Prospective Plantings Contest
How Much Corn?

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Tomorrow morning at 7:30 central time USDA will announce the results of its prospective plantings survey, which asks growers about their planting intentions this spring.

It's the most anticipated USDA crop report in years.

The big question: given the ethanol boom and the highest corn prices we've seen in many years, just how much corn do U.S. farmers say they'll plant this season?

The first person with the closest guess to the NASS estimate will win a fabulous, genuine "King Corn" gimme cap, named after the newly released film.

What's your guess?

Contest closes midnight ET.

Posted by Cook on March 29, 2007 9:27 AM |

Comments

91,234,587

Posted by: Chris Campbell | March 29, 2007 3:10 PM

91,000,000

Posted by: Weston Lewis | March 29, 2007 5:02 PM

92.3 Million Acres

Posted by: Blake Shurtz | March 29, 2007 5:08 PM

I guess 86.7 million acres.

Posted by: Michelle Perez | March 29, 2007 6:32 PM

102,000,000 million acres.

Posted by: Sandra Schubert | March 29, 2007 7:04 PM

87.1 MM.

Posted by: Craig Taylor | March 29, 2007 10:41 PM

87.3 mln ac

Posted by: John Walter | March 29, 2007 11:44 PM

100.000.000

Posted by: joe | March 30, 2007 10:46 AM

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