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CHICAGO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Private analytics firm Informa Economics estimated U.S. 2012 corn plantings at 97.172 million acres, above the U.S. Department of Agriculture's current estimate of 96.4 million, trade sources said Friday.

The firm put U.S. 2012 soybean planted acreage at 77.143 million acres, above the USDA's last estimate of 76.1 million.

For 2013, Informa projected that U.S. farmers would plant 97.537 million acres of corn, 79.872 million acres of soybeans and a total of 57.127 million acres of wheat.

Informa officials had no comment on the figures.