 In May, year-over-year inflation dropped to 2.6%. That's down from a peak of more than 7% two years ago. Analysts surveyed by the Wall Street Journal are forecasting this year's corn production to top 15 billion bushels. That's up from the 14.8 billion bushel crop projected by USDA last month. If that forecast holds, it would be the second largest corn crop in history, second only to last year's production of 15.3 billion bushels.