SOME REASONS WHY 2014 COULD BE BETTER THAN RECENT BEARISH FORECASTS, AND STILL VOLATILE.As the Commodity Classic trade show wound down in San Antonio, Texas, last month, I stopped by the U.S. Grains Council booth. U.S. corn exports were in the news, as the crisis unfolded in Ukraine, the planet's third biggest corn exporter. The day before,new-cropcorn futures had jumped a dime after Ukraine accused Russia of violating its territorial integrity in the Crimean peninsula.Julius Schaaf, an Iowa farmer who chairs the Grains Council, thought corn futures might hit $5. Two days later, he was right, at least for the July 2015 contract.Ukraine isn't the main reason for the optimism that was easy to find in San Antonio, where record Commodity Classic attendance topped 7,000.
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