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Early snow impact on farmers

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Early snow impact on farmers
Early snow impact on farmers
How does it affect food prices?

The early snowfall over the weekend has thrown a wrench into the fall harvest... and corn prices are up.

It is a sellers market with cash corn prices rising.

What's more, the corn on some minnesota farms is dryer than usual.

So the cost of drying it out is signficantly lower.

The corn harvest is roughly 50?

"*60 percent complete.

Some growers, though, will remain in the fields with their combines for a few weeks.

The snow uh has kinda slowed up the progress of the harvest but uh, we found this year the grain is much dryer coming out of the field compared to what it has been in the past corn prices aren't alone in being on the upside?

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