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Crop progress report - the forecast calls for grain.

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There’s an old saying around the Chicago Board of Trade’s grain futures pits: Big crops get bigger.

While many of us Chicagoans griped about often-crummy summer weather we had, crops across much of the Midwest flourished in the past two months amid mild temperatures and ample rainfall.

That brings to mind another favorite term from the grain trader's lexicon: bin-buster.

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