Bucketology Newsletter

Big crops, high dollar mean tough year for grain growers

Written by Maxi-Lift, Inc. | Sep 29, 2016 5:00:00 AM

Another year of bumper crops and high inventories are likely to spell another year of lower prices for corn, soybean and wheat growers, and alternately keep some feed costs in check for livestock producers. Ag economists at Purdue University’s Center for Commercial Agriculture laid out what grain growers are facing in a crop outlook webinar on Sept. 13 based on USDA’s latest crop estimates and world supply and demand report.