Sales are moving slowly-from blender to merchant, and from merchant to farm. Farm-land is generally too wet for application, and so there is less demand for product. Blenders say that product is moving out of their stores at perhaps half the rate of last year. Retail-ers and co-ops are now looking to choose between moving product closer to farms or improving their ofers to farm-ers to encourage buying. The latter could lead to squeezed margins for retailers, if it led prices downward.
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