Corn planting ramp up pushing down markets

An ag economist is expecting around a quarter of the national corn crop to be planted this week which Ben Brown says is already impacting the market.

“After the forecast for this week turned dry across Illinois, Iowa, and northern Missouri, the markets took a pretty significant plunge,” Brown said.

And the University of Missouri economist said continued forecasted warm, dry weather in several key growing states will continue adding downward pressure to the market.

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