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Market fills USDA vacuum with chatter about trade and weather. (audio)

January 3, 2019

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Nature abhors a vacuum and so do traders. With most of USDA silent due to the government shutdown, buyers and sellers are still finding plenty to talk about. Analysts continue to churn out estimates for reports that may or may not be put out next week while also wondering how a dry December affected crops in Brazil. And noise from Wall Street just won’t shut up either, as volatile trade continues in the stock market.

Bryce Knorr first joined Farm Futures Magazine in 1987. In addition to analyzing and writing about the commodity markets, he is a former futures introducing broker and is a registered Commodity Trading Advisor. He conducts Farm Futures exclusive surveys on acreage, production and management issues and is one of the analysts regularly contracted by business wire services before major USDA crop reports. Besides the Morning Call on www.FarmFutures.com he writes weekly reviews for corn, soybeans, and wheat that include selling price targets, charts and seasonal trends. His other weekly reviews on basis, energy, fertilizer and financial markets and feature price forecasts for key crop inputs. A journalist with 38 years of experience, he received the Master Writers Award from the American Agricultural Editors Association.

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