WICHITA (AP) – Kansas farmers expect to plant this spring the third largest corn crop since 1936.

The Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service reports the 4.7 million acres of prospective corn plantings is down 4 percent from the huge crop that was planted last year.

The agency says expected soybean acreage of 3.9 million is down 3 percent but it is still the third largest soybean acreage in Kansas history.

Anticipated sorghum acreage of 2.5 million acres is down 4 percent from a year ago.

Kansas growers seeded 9.5 million acres of winter wheat last fall, up 8 percent from the previous year.

Some 20.6 million acres of Kansas farmland is anticipated to be planted with those four major crops. That is up 1.5 percent from last year.