This year, four major U.S. crops will need to be planted over a record-high number of acres in this country. The expansion is required to rebuild domestic and global supply levels, which are being depleted under surprisingly steady worldwide demand.

Analysis by the Rabobank Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory (FAR) group reveals that 237 million acres of corn, cotton, soybeans and wheat need to be planted in 2011 to rebuild stocks to comfortable levels…