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Message Subject DELAYED US CORN HARVEST resulting in CHAOS for trade routes!!
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The most delayed U.S. corn harvest on record is resulting in chaos for traditional commodity trade routes.

Corn usually is harvested in the midwest, before it is sent south to be exported, according to Bloomberg. But because farmers in the east, hurt by a spring-time deluge, are holding back on supplies in hope of higher prices, the commodity's price has been pushed higher than the futures market in east - while it remains lower than the futures market in the west. It's a phenomenon known as "basis arbitrage".

The result? Corn is now starting to be shipped "over Chicago": from the west, to supply corn processors, ethanol plants or animal-feed makers in the east.

Dan Basse, president of consulting firm AgResource said: “Corn from the west going to east? It should happen at some point but it’s not the way the U.S. market is set up to transport. If basis is strong enough, we will get that pull into Ohio.”
 Quoting: Don Draper from Nantucket


ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm its all been harvested. or is this coming across the pony express. living surronded by corn fields that are just stuble.
 
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