Now that planting is well under way across the United States, the trade is trying to find data that would either confirm or cause reason to disagree with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) planting intentions figures from March.

In that release, the USDA surprised analysts by cutting U.S. corn acres to 89.5 million and raising soybean plantings to 91 million acres. Now that fieldwork is taking place, better data is available...