Source: Phyllis Picklesimer, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 8/8/11

The 2011-12 corn and soybean marketing year officially begins on Sept. 1.

As pointed out last week, the 2010-11 marketing year is ending with a slowdown in the consumption of both corn and soybeans, suggesting that year-ending stocks could be larger than projected in the USDA’s July World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, according to University of Illinois agricultural economist Darrel Good.

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