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I suspect that most of us are familiar with harvest festivals that are held during the fall in many parts of the world each year, celebrating the abundance (hopefully) of that year’s crops.  What you may not know is that in many ancient cultures, there was a counterpart to this;…

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While not completely unexpected, export sales this past week are still a disappointment for just about every ag commodity sans sorghum.  Sorghum actually set a marketing-year high of 656,700 MT after China swooped in to purchase 601,700 of that total.  For corn, sales were down 57% from the previous week…

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While not completely unexpected, export sales this past week are still a disappointment for just about every ag commodity sans sorghum.  Sorghum actually set a marketing-year high of 656,700 MT after China swooped in to purchase 601,700 of that total.  For corn, sales were down 57% from the previous week…

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It would appear that markets have decided it is time to build a bit more risk premium into the price of new crop corn.  December futures have extended into higher highs once again overnight and have moved to within a dime of challenging the 2014 peak for that contract month…

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It would appear that markets have decided it is time to build a bit more risk premium into the price of new crop corn.  December futures have extended into higher highs once again overnight and have moved to within a dime of challenging the 2014 peak for that contract month…

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