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- cw260917 The September 17, 2026, edition of Commodity Week features host Todd Gleason and panelists Naomi Blohm, Mike Zuzolo, and Greg Johnson discussing early Midwest harvest yields, which indicate slightly below-average corn and strong early soybean results. The panel analyzes the extreme market volatility currently driven by tight stocks, technical trading patterns, and macroeconomic pressures, notably spiking diesel fuel prices and railroad freight rates that are significantly widening the transportation basis. Geopolitical factors, including Black Sea infrastructure attacks and a potential U.S. diesel export ban, are weighed alongside the highly anticipated U.S.-China trade negotiations involving President Trump and President Xi. The experts collectively advise agricultural producers to adopt a balanced risk management strategy, utilizing current price rallies to lock in profitable cash sales while maintaining reownership strategies to navigate continued market unpredictability. Panelist - Naomi Blohm, Total Farm Marketing - Greg Johnson, TGM Total Grain Marketing - Mike Zuzolo, Global Commodity Analytics and Consulting --- Todd Gleason: This is the September 17 edition of Commodity Week. announce: Todd Gleason services are made available to WILL by University of Illinois Extension. Todd Gleason: Welcome to Commodity Week. I am Todd Gleason. Our panelists for the day include Naomi Blohm; she’s with Total Farm Marketing out of West Bend, Wisconsin. Mike Zuzolo joins us from globalcommresearch.com out of Atchison, Kansas, and Greg Johnson from here in Champaign, Illinois, comes from Total Grain Marketing. Commodity Week, of course, is a production of Illinois Public Media. It’s public radio for the farming world online on demand at WILLag.org, where you can hear not only Commodity Week but our closing market report, the daily look at the marketplace. Now, let’s get a list of items that we should discuss for the day from our panelists. Naomi Blohm, from Total Farm Marketing, we’ll start with you today. What’s on your list? Naomi Blohm: Yeah, so just keeping a balance of keeping cash sales current in this environment for corn and soybeans as we head into some potential harvest pressure. Charts are starting to potentially look a little toppy. Of course, big picture, we’re well supported, but we want to keep an eye on what might happen into the end of the month as we get ready for President Xi’s visit next week, and also maybe funds taking profits into month-end/quarter-end. And we’ve got a quarterly stocks report sneaking up on us at the end of the month, too. Todd Gleason: Okay. Mike Zuzolo, anything to add? Mike Zuzolo: Just the Federal Reserve coming in this week, Todd, and thank goodness for that meal market. Todd Gleason: And finally, anything from you, Greg Johnson, there at the elevator? Greg Johnson: Well, with harvest just getting started, I think we want to keep an eye on yields. USDA lowered the corn yield in the last report; will they lower it again, or will they raise it again? There’s precedence that we could see a change either way based on past reductions in the September and August crop reports. So that’s something to keep an eye on, is early yield results. Todd Gleason: Okay, you’re the one who’s closest to yields, so let’s pick up with you. What are you seeing in the elevator today, yesterday, this week? Greg Johnson: In general, I would say Illinois is a little on the disappointing side. Not terrible, not a disaster by any stretch, but just average to slightly below average, I would say. And that is in general. So I have people tell me that I’m 40 bushels better than what you’re saying, and I have other people calling in and saying I’m 40 bushels lower than what you’re saying. And that’s exactly what an average is; an average is the midpoint. But in general, I think my midpoint so far is a little bit lower than what we were thinking, and I think the USDA was justified in lowering Illinois’s crop. I can’t speak to the other states necessarily, but I think Illinois’s crop is just a little bit lower, and again, one to two to three bushels, not tremendously lower, but I think we’re lower. Soybeans, we haven’t really seen a lot of beans come in yet, but in the southern part of the state where they have been harvesting, some of our elevators are reporting farmers reporting above-average yields, near-record yields on the soybeans. It’s still too early to say for sure. I don’t think that’s a trend, but if I had to say right now, I would say corn’s just a couple bushels below what USDA was using in Illinois, and the beans probably are every bit as good as what USDA is estimating for Illinois. Todd Gleason: Mike Zuzolo, what have you been hearing? I know you have a look across a good portion of the Midwest. Mike Zuzolo: Yeah, you know, I’m right there in line with what Greg is saying on the corn. Been to Indiana, Illinois, obviously Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska in the last couple weeks, and it sounds like about a 10% lower than last year yield for corn catches a lot of producers. I was in Davenport, Quad Cities last week and hadn’t really gotten started much up there, but those who had, or those who had chopped silage in eastern Iowa, were getting that kind of number equivalent with their silage chopping. Beans, like Greg, a little bit harder to tell. The guys that have told me that they felt like they were going to have 90, 100 bushel beans are in the 70s, 80s—still very happy, but is it better than last year or equivalent to last year? I don’t know yet, Todd, but I do think that the fact that the beans have been able to run higher and the bean-corn ratio has been able to move against the USDA yield numbers may be telling us something. Because the Lincoln, Nebraska soy processor went up 50 cents a bushel on Thursday. Council Bluffs, Iowa went up 90 cents if you could deliver by Saturday. That’s the area of the country that’s probably going to bring down the national yield in both corn and beans, I would suspect, because of the crop weather that they’ve had pretty much all year long from start to now finish. And it really suggests to me pretty strongly that there’s some bean yield issues in that area and the processors are really going after it. So as the wheat and the soybean oil have failed to follow the crude oil higher earlier this week, the meal has really done a good job and gotten up to mid–2024 highs, so that’s a big piece of the puzzle I think with the bean yield to me. Todd Gleason: Anything from you on yields, Naomi Blohm? Naomi Blohm: What I’m hearing from clients really echoes what these two gentlemen have said. Plenty of variability. Lots of folks saying it’s more close to a five-year average, and just depending on where they lived, if the rain happened or not, it could be slightly lower, slightly higher. So I do feel like the USDA, by lowering yield in general over the last couple reports here, is doing a good job to acknowledge the situation out there. But it may be until we get to the January report before the USDA does some sort of larger adjustment in some capacity; otherwise, it’s a little bit of a wait-and-see game until we get these combines really rolling over the next couple of weeks. Todd Gleason: Let’s talk about the combines rolling. Harvest pressure will come in. This is something you suggested we need to note, Naomi. We generally know why that’s the case, but what are you thinking about it as it relates to this year? Naomi Blohm: Well, I just feel like we’ve priced in a lot of “buy the rumor, sell the fact” from the standpoint we knew the yields were not going to be as large as the USDA was early touting, and so that pushed the market higher in July and August. But now we’re in this holding pattern, and prices for the past two weeks have traded more sideways. When I look at a December corn chart, struggling to get through the 535 area—I’m sorry, excuse me, through the 550 area—but we have support near 530 in the short term. And what I’m kind of keeping an eye on would be this 21-day moving average that we tested the last few days. If that should fail, next support is lower, 525, and there’s a gap on the daily chart that might want to get filled near 509. So if we just don’t get any fresh news, along with just natural harvest pressure and grain coming into town, we might see just a simple pullback of prices on the corn market, on the soybean market as well. But I do feel like any pullback would immediately be met by anxious buyers who are still hyped on the conversation of yield could be a lot smaller than what USDA is saying, and then of course also being mindful of what could happen in South America this winter. You know, the world does need them to have a really exceptional crop just due to the demand globally, so if they don’t get it due to El Nino complications come 2027, we could see some dramatically higher prices. But in the short term, if we don’t get any fresh news, it would just be easy for prices, like I said, to just fall back a little bit. The funds have had an amazing third quarter with the rally that we’ve had and the buying that they’ve done, we might see them take just some profits on those massive long positions to show really solid quarter-end results for their clients. So just be a little bit cautious, I feel like, bull markets have to be fed daily. I just don’t know if we’re going to get that news over the next few weeks. Todd Gleason: Greg Johnson, on that we-need-news function, I want to rely a little bit on your historical knowledge. Not for this area, but for this area maybe in previous years, when there have been wet falls. And if I remember correctly, parts of Iowa, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Minnesota all got in early for planting, off to a really great start. I would think that crop should be maturing faster rather than not, or be ready to harvest, and they have been just getting deluged and the expectation is they’ll still get more rainfall. How much of an issue might that be, and how does the marketplace react to it? Greg Johnson: Some years we do put kind of an early frost premium in the market. But as you said, the crop got planted so early this year that I have not heard that word mentioned yet this year. So I think we’re out of the early frost concern phase. Now, as far as down corn, wet corn, that could still be an issue, but that’s more of a quality issue, not a quantity issue. I think the bushels are out there; whether farmers get discounted for them or not, it’s still a bushel of corn, it still fills the pipeline, so I’m not sure that quality is necessarily a bullish factor. A wet year probably is not necessarily a bullish year. What we’re seeing at the Gulf, for example, is we’re seeing extremely firm soybean basis levels. I think that’s really because China has come in—the expectation is that China has come in and bought, you know, a few boatloads every three days, it seems like. And so it’s more order flow. You know, the buyers are there, and the farmers are not as willing to sell. So we’ve seen a very firm basis in beans. Not quite the same situation in corn. We haven’t seen the big export demand; we’ve seen solid export demand, but it just seems to be the same number. Whereas farmers don’t feel like they’re as oversold on corn, and with $5-plus corn on the board, they’re more willing to sell a little bit more corn on this rally. So we’re seeing weaker basis levels on corn this fall, but firmer basis levels on soybeans thus far this fall. Todd Gleason: Let me continue on with you for just a moment because planting in our area and to a large part of the Corn Belt actually was pretty widespread across a series of dates and months. Will that ease up the pressure in the basis or not? Greg Johnson: I think so. I think it will help support soybean basis for sure. Farmers seem to be willing to hold on to beans, and they’re a little bit concerned that they sold too many early. You know, even if that was only a quarter to a third of their crop, farmers are kicking themselves for having sold that quarter to third of their crop with an 11 or a 12 in front of the price instead of waiting for 13. So I think they’re more willing to hold on to soybeans at this point. Corn though, I think farmers will be willing to sell corn into any substantial rally if we do get one. The fact that it’s spread out could alleviate how low the basis goes, but it still feels like the corn basis could be subject to some pressure over the next four to five weeks. Todd Gleason: Mike Zuzolo, can you talk more about how you help producers deal with basis? It is an important factor within their marketing. Mike Zuzolo: You know, I feel like we say this almost every year, Todd, but basis is probably going to make the biggest difference on your profitability this year. Obviously, if you locked in your diesel before the run-up for the farm, but the thing I’m seeing more and more is, and the USDA weekly transportation report really highlighted this, but also producers that I work with have highlighted this as well, that some areas of the interior, if you don’t have an ethanol or soybean biodiesel plant near you or you’re not near the rivers, you’re really getting hit pretty hard with the surcharges led by the railroads pushing on added costs. And you know, some of the figures that have been put out this past week is that for the second quarter, railroads have covered upwards of 90% of their diesel increases. And so you’re talking about basis levels—one producer in Kansas was talking about how his basis levels essentially doubled from 40 under to 70 under for hard red wheat for the spot market. So that’s one of the things that I think is really going to have to be watched very closely, especially as it relates to: do you hedge cash, or do you hedge paper and leave your cash alone? And that’s where it goes back to yields, basis, diesel, potential export ban—that’s been floated around in the last 24 hours, what could that do to the futures market in the short term? And then what could, as Naomi talked about, the U.S.-China trade meeting. So these things I think are really important. But basis for me, I don’t know if Greg has much to say about the basis levels as it relates to the diesel prices. Does this seem like a really tough year for you, Greg, kind of like what we went through with Arab Spring and back in 2011, 2012, or not? Greg Johnson: Well, definitely, Mike. The fuel, the diesel price increase—we’ve already seen 15% increases in freight rates from what we had last year. And now we’ve got truckers coming back saying that that’s not enough; we may need to go up another 5% for a total of 20%. That’s just on the truck side. The rail side, yes, you hit it right on the head. The railroads are increasing rates, and that has a corresponding effect on lowering the basis. So, and the fact that there’s three times as many bushels of corn on an acre versus beans, the cost to transport a lot of corn is going to impact the corn basis probably more so than the bean basis. They’ll both be affected, but corn basis especially. And I think that’s another reason to look for weaker corn basis as we get into the fall. Todd Gleason: Is anybody been following barge freight rates on the Mississippi River and what have they done, do we know? Mike Zuzolo: Yeah, the barge in general has gone from about 204 a year ago at this time to about 250 from the AMS update. Todd Gleason: I want to come back to you, Naomi, because I do like the charts. Can you talk a little bit more about what you’re seeing there? You used the word “maybe toppy.” Naomi Blohm: I did use that word. When I look at the charts, of course, we had that exceptional August rally that peaked out at the end of August, early September. But then on Friday’s USDA report, both corn and soybeans posted bearish reversals. And the market has tried to crawl back up for prices and retest those highs from Friday, but they just are struggling to get through those areas. So the bearish reversals are still holding as a potential short-term topping signal. And particularly on corn, what we have now is even 5-day and 10-day moving averages holding as short-term resistance. And then, like I said earlier, the 21-day moving average is holding as support. But if those technical levels get broken, the risk then is that we see additional technical selling or sell stops get triggered under the market. And that’s when sometimes the funds, even though the market fundamentals are supportive for the big picture, just sometimes the technical selling triggers them to exit some of those long positions. So it’s something to be mindful of, because producers right now, they are so excited for the headlines of $6 corn, that they’re kind of, I think, short-term losing sight of what is in front of them. So I just want folks to not be surprised if all of a sudden over the next couple weeks, if we don’t get any friendly news here, if we see December corn slither back down towards 509 and fill that gap, or test the bigger uptrend at the $5 handle, don’t be too surprised. It’s just, like we said earlier, part of the harvest pressure, part of the technical point of the market being overdone for this time of year and needing to have a simple setback. So just something to be mindful of. And then flipping over to the bean side of it, November beans, real solid support at the $13 area, but the bearish reversal from Friday from the USDA report is still there. So we’ll want to watch November beans if they should fall below $13 from a technical standpoint. Next support lower is 12.75, you could argue that it could fall down to 12.50. But resistance on those November beans right at the 13.35 area. If we get any friendly news, if China comes into the picture and does some bigger buying here in the next few days, or if we get some positive traction out of the meeting with President Xi and President Trump next week, that would be potentially supportive and then we could start the next leg higher. So technicals still rule, and sometimes they take over if fundamental news is lacking, so just be aware of that. Todd Gleason: Mike Zuzolo, she mentioned that farmers are pretty excited about $6 corn, $13 soybeans. But really this marketplace has been driven by the outside influences and fund money in large part. I think you can talk about that. And then they are always looking to the other outside influences beyond what yields are like. For instance, the Federal Reserve changed its interest rates this week. President Trump not very happy with them as they raised it a quarter point. What things are you watching? Mike Zuzolo: Yeah, we’ve talked about this a long time ago when the tariffs started, Todd, but it’s worth remembering and recalling that President Trump’s economic, tariff, and foreign policy are wrapped into one, I think. And he’s wanted a weaker dollar like President Reagan wanted back in the mid–80s, through the tariffs and through lower interest rates. The tariffs have been repealed, the dollar is starting to spike. Why is that? Because the diesel prices, the diesel prices are about 30% higher than they were at the peak before the Great Recession of 2008. Those diesel prices are driving the bond yields to levels not seen since 2007 earlier this week of above 5%. That really gets the attention of the funds and the money. And not only does that happen, but then with the stronger dollar, you have the real demand, the export demand start to work against us. And so the reason I think the Fed moved against, as you say, President Trump’s wants, was because they saw the fact that they needed to try and tap down this strength of the dollar and this strength of the bond yields because of the diesel prices. So we’re getting hit from a variety of areas on the farm, but the key point is, Naomi brought it up earlier, the El Nino. You know, the Japanese came up earlier this year with the Godzilla El Nino. Well, we’ve seen Mothra, who is the Fed, they’ve done the first swipe of raising rates. So you can make an argument now, you’ve got peak demand, both peak investment demand and peak export demand at this point. So now it’s really up to the supply to keep dropping. So that’s what we I think have to balance here the next 30 to 60 days. Todd Gleason: So by supply keeping dropping, what do you mean? Mike Zuzolo: Yeah, another Russian refinery was hit on Thursday, 300,000 barrels a day. Energy infrastructure was hit near Odesa. Another bridge was hit near the Danube ports for Ukraine. What if the soybean yield is down two bushels? That will cut our carryover in half if we don’t change the demand numbers. And so there is—and as Naomi said, what about El Nino? What if we have this historic El Nino, Indonesia, Australia, and Southeast Asia get clipped, along with a little bit of Brazil. And I think this is where it’s going to be a sharp tiger-tooth type market, I think, continue to be as in the foreseeable future. Todd Gleason: So then the question, and Mike I’m gonna let you answer this, but I think everybody should jump in on this, is that the logistical issues can both be an upside, let’s say the war between Russia and Ukraine, the Black Sea area. The logistical issues related to the Danube and drought and not being able to move through that port either, that’s one of the places Ukraine has used. And that could be constrained. And then on the flip side, you have the same war constraining the supply of diesel fuel which is making things much higher priced. One, of course working for higher priced grains and oil seeds. The other taking away through the basis. I’m wondering how those two things, or maybe more, work in concert with each other? Do they cancel each other out in some form? And how do you manage them for producers? And Mike, since you started this, let’s start with you. Mike Zuzolo: Well the short answer for me, Todd, is that you could get a diesel export ban by President Trump before the election and I think that could shoot the corn down 50 cents, the soybean oil down, you know, maybe 10, 15% in the short term. Maybe we go through $13 and Naomi’s support level and go all the way back towards those highs from back in the May/June time period, March, April, May, June time period, where it was really tough to get above of that 12.15, 12.20 level. That’s on paper, but does it change the cash market, does it make the supply any better? No, it probably actually increases the demand and makes the supply go down even more. So that’s why in most cases I’m going to be inclined to do paper positions and really try and store as much as I can, unless like Greg’s talking about, you’ve got a really strong bean basis right now. Todd Gleason: And Naomi, it is just full of danger zones, I think, for this marketing season. What are you telling producers? Naomi Blohm: Um, that it’s going to be as volatile as any of the most volatile years in recent memory, and that just to remind folks, they can’t outguess it. And five times throughout the next marketing year I think you’re going to feel like the smartest person on the planet, and then five days later you’re going to have episodes where you’re feeling like you made poor choices. I just feel like all the volatile things that we’ve talked about, between war, between the diesel prices, between, you know, what if there is an export ban and then that makes prices go lower. The volatility is just going to be very extreme this year. So you have to be ready for any scenario that unfolds going forward. You just can’t outguess it. Volatility and weather could take prices just surging higher, so you have to have reownership strategies ready to go for that. But at the same token, just to the points that were said here, you know, what if some of those scenarios came to play where, what if South America doesn’t have a weather issue, what if some of these wars simmer down and then the volatility tames and prices edge lower. So just be ready for anything, but it is going to be volatile. Todd Gleason: And Greg Johnson, your thoughts? Greg Johnson: I’m gonna add on to what Mike and Naomi said. First of all, stocks-to-use ratio for corn finally got below 10%, so that’s just a reiteration that corn stocks are relatively tight, we’ve had very good demand, and US stocks and world stocks continue to get a little bit tighter all the time. That’s number one. Number two, let’s go back to Econ 101. The demand for food is inelastic. So if there really is a perceived shortage out there, what’s the difference between $5 corn and $6 corn? I mean, we can move from five to six pretty easily; likewise, if there’s too much, we can go to four real easily. Beans the same way, that $13 bean price could easily go to 14, but a year ago we were at $10 on the board. And I try to remind producers of that, you know, why did I sell $11.50, $12 beans? Because a year ago they were 10 and lower. And so, you know, for all these factors, it boils down to risk versus reward. Right now it feels like there’s more reward than risk in my opinion, but we’ve already gone up 20% in prices just since the first of July. So some of this reward has already been built in, nothing wrong with taking advantage of that or locking in floors. So, you know, for whatever strategy you want to employ, just realize that stocks are extremely tight and prices can move on any kind of perceived rumor, and a dollar higher or a dollar lower is not out of the question in either corn or soybeans. Todd Gleason: And finally, the thing we have not brought up just yet, and Naomi I’ll start with you, is President Xi’s visit to the United States. That should come up the 23rd, 4th, and 5th. I was just looking to see whether there had been any official communications regarding the visit from China to the United States. The coordination still underway, but it appears there’s no official announcement that President Xi will be coming. That’s not all that unusual. What do we think about his visits and the possibilities of more sales? Naomi Blohm: Well, of course, we would love it if he were able to come over here for a visit, then we could get hopefully some additional written policy or verbal information regarding not only ag prices and ag sales and grain and things like that, but of course with all the other precious metals and things that the trade and that the US and China are trying to negotiate. It’s all important. But my fear would be, if for some reason he does not come, well are we going to get our friendly news? Are we going to get our headlines? If we don’t get those headlines, then it makes it easier for grain prices to just edge a little bit lower because we’ve been hoping for fresh news, hoping to see not only soybean sales, maybe some corn sales, maybe some wheat sales. So if we don’t get it, it kind of goes into that conversation I had earlier where we might see some profit taking into the end of the month and end of the quarter if we don’t get some fresh news out of China. Todd Gleason: Mike Zuzolo, how are you viewing this news? Mike Zuzolo: Yeah, the expectations and the hopes are high and those have been led by Secretary Treasury Bessent and the USTR Greer. So I think Naomi is spot on there. I would say this weekend is very important, this upcoming weekend because we’re going to have the highest level talks underneath President Trump and President Xi. So if we get good news out of that and we get some details out of that, that would be very helpful to keep the market in a positive mindset, I think, Todd. I think most importantly though for me, the Chinese domestic economy is weak enough still and their deflation and post-COVID environment is bad enough still, that I think that President Xi wants to get something done when it comes to their manufacturing exports. Because he has to keep relying upon his export market; the domestic market just can’t get the job done. So, unless something else would happen with Iran, and that’s always possible, it seems to me that President Xi is in a situation where he wants to get something done with President Trump. Todd Gleason: It is good news, Greg Johnson, that Scott Bessent will be meeting, I believe, with He Lifeng from China this weekend, and that’s a sign that they may be able to put together something on paper before the two of these men meet in Washington, D.C. Greg Johnson: Exactly. My take all along has been that China exports trillions of dollars worth of products into the United States, whereas the soybeans that we sell to China are billions, with a B, not trillions. So I think China would gladly agree to buy more soybeans or whatever commodity it is if President Trump agrees to keep the tariffs or even reduce the tariffs on China and not increase them. I think that is just simple math from China’s point of view. So I guess I’m still hopeful that they can work something out and that if President Trump keeps the tariffs where they are or actually even lowers them on all the Chinese products, that China would reciprocate by hopefully buying a few more US agricultural products. Todd Gleason: Let’s get a final word from each of you now. Mike Zuzolo, I’ll start with you at globalcommresearch.com in Atchison, Kansas. Mike Zuzolo: You know, one of the more supportive features of this market has been the crude oil and the wheat relationship. We’ve talked a lot about that positive correlation. It’s gone deeply negative the last three weeks, Todd, and the same with the soybean oil and the crude oil. And so that does raise some flags for me, and I’m like Naomi, I like the technicals a lot, the technicals have held up very nicely, they’ve taken news and dealt with it very well. And the fund length is not too aggressive on this correction, so I’m in the camp that if the wheat and the crude could get back together again on a positive basis, European wheat and corn especially, then we could probably see some further upside potential. Todd Gleason: Naomi Blohm from Total Farm Marketing, your final word for the day? Naomi Blohm: Just a reminder for producers to keep that balanced approach going forward. If you’re making cash sales at harvest for whatever reason, do consider some reownership strategies. But then also just keep in mind, we do need those bull markets to continue to have good fresh fundamental news. There’s a lot of excitement that could happen as we go into the end of ’26 and ’27, but primarily it’s weather-related. Mother nature can do whatever she wants, so be ready to protect downside as well on unpriced bushels because you just never know. Todd Gleason: And finally, Greg Johnson from TGM. Greg Johnson: Well, I don’t think it’s mutually exclusive to say to make some sales to get up to 40% or 50% sold of your crop, while also saying that the prices can still go higher. I mean, I still I guess I would have to characterize myself as friendly to bullish even at these price levels, but I would also acknowledge that we’ve gone up 20% in both corn and soybean prices, and if a farmer can lock in a profit, why not lock in a profit on some bushels and hope that it continues to go higher because you still have more bushels left to sell. Nobody wants to make a sale and have that be your best sale, because that means all the rest of your crop is going to get sold at a lower price. So take a look at these prices, even if you think it could go higher, there’s nothing wrong with locking in profits at these levels. Todd Gleason: Commodity Week, of course, is a production of Illinois Public Media, it’s public radio for the farming world. You can listen to the program in its entirety any time you’d like at our website, WILLag.org. Our thanks go to our panelists this week, including Naomi Blohm, Greg Johnson, and Mike Zuzolo. I’m Illinois Extension’s Todd Gleason.