Hobby, that map raises a lot of questions......... Which you don't have time for harvesting a record crop and not putting a bushel of it on the ground...........intentionally..
It is so abnormal in many ways from the pre ethanol era. thanks for putting it up here.... we need to figure out where we are now that congress runs farming.
I think it has a big effect from the ddg absence.
A lot of the corn truck freight going south through the western corn belt is not reflected in current basis.... so must not be happening. Except for that obvious run from Sw ks to Nw texas....Looks like it will be back to normal there.
But look at shaggy's Hays Ks area..... Not much corn raised there??? Which makes me wonder how much of this is reflected in "market control locally"(lack of competition) as consolidation rolls on...??
And of course, not to be left out, a railroad monopoly ?
Since nearly as much corn leaves Iowa as ddgs in one form or another. is that a distorting factor to basis?
