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Sep 08, 2020 | For Members

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I have been searching for the appropriate phrase this morning. “A day late and a dollar short,” or how about, “better late than never.” Either would seem appropriate to describe the long-awaited moisture that has returned to Northern Illinois over the past 48 hours or so. Right where I sit,…

Sep 06, 2020 | For Members

Weekly Commentary

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 It would seem only appropriate that, just ahead of the national celebration of Labor here in the United States, we should be presented with encouraging news on the labor front. During the month of August, US employers added 1.37 million jobs to payrolls, and we saw the…

Sep 04, 2020

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While most of the thrills and spills were over at the equity casino yesterday, it did create little discomfort in the grain trade as well. Beans did turn out to be the exception to the rule as they shrugged off the volatility elsewhere, and let’s face it, China is interested…

Sep 04, 2020 | For Members

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Sep 03, 2020

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Bean bulls found inspiration again yesterday as rumors began to circulate that China was snooping around the bean counter again and had room in the cart for a few hundred thousand metric tons. It turns out that was correct as this morning, the USDA did confirm that China got to…