Max Armstrong recalls the era when the grain trade was a vigorous, raucous experience. Max quotes a trader who laments the passing of that era and that humans trading with humans would have avoided the coronavirus challenges facing the market today. And there's a warning created by that negative-price oil market.

Farm Progress America is a daily look at key issues in agriculture. It is produced and presented by Max Armstrong, veteran farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness.

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