The move to higher corn prices encouraged hopes the worst of agriculture's problems ended with the 1990s. For now whether the market moves higher depends on how end men react to the sudden shift in prices. Both livestock feeders and foreign customersgrew accustomed to buying hand-to-mouth while corn values sank lower and lower. If the tide has turned, they should start stockpiling inventories, figuring, the lows are in.
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