Commentary

By: Dan Hueber – According to news reports, China’s Ag Ministry has uncovered the culprit in the spread of African swine fever that has been plaguing that nations hog herd; table scraps.  Evidently feeding them to animals has been a common practice in some operations there, although it is difficult…

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By: Patrick McRae – Grain markets closed mixed with tight ranges of trade on the day.  Harvest has resumed in much of the Midwest with the drier weather, but talks of worse than expected yields have been coming up more often than not.  We seem to have priced in the…

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By: Dan Hueber – While still behind the average pace, enough headway was made with bean harvest last week to discourage a few more would-be bulls in the bean market.  Moving ahead by 15% points, as of the weekend bean harvest was estimated to be 53% complete.  Normal for this…

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