High wheat prices have some flour mills scraping the bottom of their inventory ahead of winter wheat harvest.

Dave Devore is the grain buyer for Siemer Milling Company based in Teutoplis, Illinois.

“I think a lot of flour mills are probably going into harvest with not much inventory. The markets have kind of dictated and most elevators have sold everything they had. That is kind of unique where we aren’t going in with much of an inventory.”

But after scouting fields in their buying territory, he tells Brownfield he is confident a lot of wheat will move once harvest starts.

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