An ag economist says the rise in corn and soybean prices after sharp declines caused by COVID-19 won’t fully return to ‘normal’ until the end of the pandemic.

Gary Schnitkey is with the University of Illinois.

“We’re going to have to have COVID-19 distancing measures done with, and the fear of that over,” Schnitkey said. “And probably, the fear is more important than the ending of the measures.”

He tells Brownfield the pandemic has been especially hard on the corn market because of less ethanol consumption with fewer people traveling.

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