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Feb 22, 2022
Feb 22, 2022 Updated Feb 24, 2022

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Editor’s note: The following was written by Gary Schnitkey, Krista Swanson, Nick Paulson and Jim Baltz with the University of Illinois and Carl Zulauf with Ohio State University for the farmdoc daily website Feb. 8.

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