Few surprises in last WASDE of 2018

12/12/18 6:15 AM By Daniel Enoch

There were few major surprises in the last WASDE report of 2018, released Tuesday, with estimates of corn production and soybean production unchanged from November.

Daniel Enoch
Contributing Editor

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