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Oct 05 | Closing Market Report

The October 5, 2026 edition of the Closing Market Report opens with commodity market settlements before agricultural economist Ed Usset discusses harvest rain delays, localized spikes in soybean basis bids, and grain marketing strategies ahead of the upcoming USDA WASDE report. The broadcast then examines the rapid expansion of data centers into rural America with American Farm Bureau Federation economist Bernt Nelson, addressing the balance between high financial offers for landowners, the permanent loss of productive farmland, and agriculture's increasing dependence on data storage for…

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