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Do you remember the old Irving Berlin song, Blue Skies?  The opening lines are; “Blue skies smiling at me, Nothing but blue skies, do I see.”  While our current weather outlook may not be quite that cheerful, it does appear to be the best we have seen for the Midwest…

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Do you remember the old Irving Berlin song, Blue Skies?  The opening lines are; “Blue skies smiling at me, Nothing but blue skies, do I see.”  While our current weather outlook may not be quite that cheerful, it does appear to be the best we have seen for the Midwest…

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Grain and soy markets are playing role reversal this morning as they continue to chop aimlessly in front of the November crop production reports. As expected, trade estimates have been released, and for those, I have seen break down as follows; Corn production is estimated to come through at 13.623…

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I do not know about you, but I just cannot seem to shake this feeling that I am an hour behind in everything I have tried to accomplish this morning.  When I look at my watch, it appears to read “standard time,” and all markets have opened at their appointed…

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Weekly Commentary

Rumor has it that a number of Ferries in New York Harbor nearly capsized and the torch on the Statue of Liberty was temporarily blown out this week as the financial world took a huge collective sigh of relief when markets closed out the month of October. There was no…

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