Editor’s note: The following was written by Gary Schnitkey, Nick Paulson, Krista Swanson, and Jim Baltz with the University of Illinois Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, and Carl Zulauf at Ohio State University for the farmdoc daily website Sept. 27.
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