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FarmLink Marketing Expects A Bumper Harvest On The Prairies

Grain Marketing Advisors with FarmLink Marketing Solutions did their annual crop tour at the end of July. 
 
Chief Market Analyst Neil Townsend says based on the crop at that time, farmers are expected to bring in another bumper crop this year.
 
Townsend says as a result some farmers are facing challenges as they try to line up more bin space.
 
For the most part crops are looking good despite some disease issues, however crop development in many areas is still a couple of weeks behind normal.
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It's summertime in Minnesota as a yellow Air Tractor agricultural application aircraft -- a crop duster -- responds to the control inputs of its pilot in a low-altitude dance just above the tops of the cornstalks. Enjoy! And we found a Bell 206 Long Ranger spray helicopter perched on a support truck at the edge of the cornfields, and launching from there. In our video, you can occasionally hear the rotor sounds of the crop-dusting helicopter as we see the yellow Air Tractor in a nearby field.