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Farm Progress America, April 28, 2020

Max Armstrong shares insights of an industry veteran lamenting the end of traders in the grain pits

Max Armstrong recalls the era when the grain trade was a vigorous, raucous experience. Max quotes a trader who laments the passing of that era and that humans trading with humans would have avoided the coronavirus challenges facing the market today. And there's a warning created by that negative-price oil market.

Farm Progress America is a daily look at key issues in agriculture. It is produced and presented by Max Armstrong, veteran farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness.

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