CHICAGO, May 25 (Reuters) Massive flooding of U.S. farmland in the Mississippi and Ohio river basins this month will have only a minor impact on the number of acres planted to major crops, analytical firm Lanworth said on Wednesday.

Roughly 2.1 million acres of cropland in southern Illinois, southern Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, tennessee and Mississipi went under water from May 3 to 13 after the swollen Mississippi and Ohio rivers spilled over into nearby farms, Chicago-based Lanworth said in a report.

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