The 1984 corn crop fell short of 1982’s record.

However, corn production rebounded sharply in 1984 from the previous year’s drought- and government-restricted crop, according to an Agriculture Department year-end estimate. The department’s Crop Reporting Board said in its annual review that 1984 corn production hit 7.65 billion bushels, an 83% increase from 1983. That figure was 7% less than the 1982 high of 8.2 billion bushels. The estimate represented an increase of 120 million bushels over the department’s last estimate of 7.53 billion bushels, issued in November.