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Real-time news vet & Chicago trading floor survivor; Iowa farm boy at heart, chronic @Cubs & @CycloneATH fan; known to gratuitously quote @SpringsteenSays.
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USDA Acreage report caps corn-vs.-beans guessing game

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By Bruce Blythe Verified
| Farm Progress Verified
Like many corn and soybean farmers, Kaden Sweeney watched the U.S.-Iran war causing upheaval in global markets last spring, sending prices for critical farm inputs like diesel and fertilizer soaring and casting uncertainty over whether and how this year’s planting season would play out. Ultimately, Sweeney did what he usually does: plant roughly half his acreage to corn and the other half to soybeans: the tried-and-true 50-50 rotation.
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Top Tips: What to do before USDA's June 30 acreage report

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By Ben Potter Verified, Bruce Blythe Verified
| Farm Progress Verified
keyboard_arrow_down Top Tips on a Thursday Next week could be huge for grain prices – with the potential for a lot of volatility in either direction. For starters, USDA will release its hotly anticipated acreage and quarterly grain stocks reports on June 30. El Nino conditions will continue to have major implications both in the United States and abroad. And phosphate pricing and availability continue to concern many industry experts. What does it all mean?
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Wheat rallies tough to sustain, but El Niño, supply risks remain

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By Bruce Blythe Verified
| Farm Progress Verified
The wheat market focused much of this year on persistent drought in the Southern Plains that’s expected to result in the smallest winter harvest since the mid-1960s. Spring wheat growers in the Northern Plains faced no such weather calamity but shared a common denominator with their winter counterparts: The market was unkind. After rallying to a two-year high at $7.33 per bushel around mid-May, July hard red spring wheat futures tumbled as much as 17% by mid-June.
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