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We seem to have a banner week for the bulls all around. We are on track for corn to close into new highs for the advance and are looking at double-digit gains for wheat and soybeans.  Cotton shows decent strength, and gold is on track to close higher and appears…

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For weeks, if not months, it seems, I have been grousing about the corn markets’ inability to press into higher highs.  Enormous purchases by China, later than normal planting progress for safrinha corn in Brazil and less than ideal weather in Argentina, and then last week, generally positive supply and…

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With bean harvest in Brazil not quite 80% complete and the planting of the safrinha corn just complete, it might seem a bit premature to begin discussing next year’s crop potential, but that is precisely what the US attaché in the country has done.  As they say, dogs have to…

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With bean harvest in Brazil not quite 80% complete and the planting of the safrinha corn just complete, it might seem a bit premature to begin discussing next year’s crop potential, but that is precisely what the US attaché in the country has done.  As they say, dogs have to…

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I did a Google search for strange things that wash up on beaches, and most of the items that came up did not seem really strange at all.  Jellyfish, giant squid, driftwood, whale bones, and of course, entire beached whales at times.  Sure, there were are few oddities, such as…

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