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Market Forecaster: Beef exports improve just in time for winter sales

Brian Hoops
Nov 16, 2020
Nov 16, 2020 Updated Jul 28, 2021

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Corn closed the week 3 ¼ cents higher. Private exporters announced sales of 130,000 metric tons (mts) to South Korea.

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Brian Hoops is president and senior market analyst of Midwest Market Solutions Inc. The home office is in Springfield, Mo., with branch offices in Thief River Falls, Minn.; Verona, N.D.; Yankton, S.D.; Storm Lake, Iowa; and Springfield, Neb.