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The Twin Toxic Threats to Corn Crops

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    FBN’s Jeff Flock on the new threats to corn crops in addition to the drought.

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Audited just want Jeff there's a toxic threat at this CMA what's going up.

Thank you that's no well you -- you look at the floor sometimes you think that maybe the toxic threat but no it's -- -- toxic threat.

In terms of corn this is something that traders -- talking about the last few days this is the end of trading here see some of the traders -- in and out today by the way to put the corn board up today.

You see that it was fairly flat trading but what that market has traded on a little bit earlier in the week.

Was this whole concept of -- toxin and nitrogen.

Poisoning essentially -- could be for cows.

That's because nitrogen in the in the corn crop.

-- put on the air and in a normal year when you get -- -- gets absorbed up into the plant and it makes the plant grow and it's a wonderful thing when you don't get rain.

What happens is that nitrogen stays in the plant.

And the nick -- for -- which it could be toxic to the cows and the hogs they eat that site which.

Also the possibility of something called -- -- toxin.

That is so fungus that forms on corn when it stressed -- -- you know had problems with the heat so those are the two twin that.

Direct toxic threats to the crop that does nothing but drive prices up further even though today was fairly flat -- Which I tell you what -- just when he thought there was good news out there with the rain come in the room up head fake not gonna happen prices going into the -- get a break.

Now -- underperformance iconic Hollywood today Jeff Flock thank you very much the triple threat courses Jeff Flock.

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