The U.S. Department of Agriculture鈥檚 Jan. 12 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report wasn鈥檛 particularly kind to the U.S. corn market and prices reacted accordingly. But the new year is just beginning and things can change.
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