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Producer sentiment slips following harvest
Dec 5, 2017, 15:23 PM
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According to the latest Purdue/CME Ag Economy Barometer, producer sentiment slipped following harvest. The November barometer dropped 7-points to 128, the second-lowest reading for 2017.
Purdue ag economist David Widmar says the decline was driven by the reduced optimism about the future. “Respondents described the next 12 months in agriculture as bad times financially,” he says. “This has been trending higher since this summer when it hit a low of 50 percent getting that rating back in July.
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