Comments on: Crop tour answers some questions, raises others http://blogs.reuters.com/commodity-corner/2008/08/22/crop-tour-answers-some-questions-raises-others/ Views on commodities and energy Mon, 20 May 2013 06:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Duane BAarber http://blogs.reuters.com/commodity-corner/2008/08/22/crop-tour-answers-some-questions-raises-others/comment-page-1/#comment-335096 Duane BAarber Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:32:08 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/commodity-corner/2008/08/22/crop-tour-answers-some-questions-raises-others/#comment-335096 AS THE ARTICLE COPIED BELOW STATES, THE "CROP TOUR" IS FARMER FUNDED. THEY COULD BE HAVING TO DRIVE OVER SURPLUS CORN ON THE ROAD AND THE PRESS WOULD REPORT A SHORTAGE STORY. THEY COULD EVEN GO SO FAR AS TO SAY THE CORN SOAKED UP ALL THE RAIN / SUN AND THE SOY BEAN CROP WAS IN BIG TROUBLE, AND THE SPECULATORS WOULD BE IN HEAVEN. NO DIFFERENT THAN THE OIL LIE. As the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour’s two legs departed on Monday from Columbus, Ohio, and and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, crop scouts were already aware that variability and crop immaturity would be a big part of the story of this year’s corn and soybean crops AS THE ARTICLE COPIED BELOW STATES, THE “CROP TOUR” IS FARMER FUNDED. THEY COULD BE HAVING TO DRIVE OVER SURPLUS CORN ON THE ROAD AND THE PRESS WOULD REPORT A SHORTAGE STORY. THEY COULD EVEN GO SO FAR AS TO SAY THE CORN SOAKED UP ALL THE RAIN / SUN AND THE SOY BEAN CROP WAS IN BIG TROUBLE, AND THE SPECULATORS WOULD BE IN HEAVEN. NO DIFFERENT THAN THE OIL LIE.

As the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour’s two legs departed on Monday from Columbus, Ohio, and and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, crop scouts were already aware that variability and crop immaturity would be a big part of the story of this year’s corn and soybean crops

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