This year’s corn crop is forecast to yield 13.63 billion bushels, but it won’t be a record crop, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in its World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) re­­port last week.

The 13.63-billion-bushel projection would be 4 percent below last year’s record, the report said.

Corn beginning stocks for 2015/16 were raised in the...