Grains mixed in typical pre-holiday positioning. Livestock mostly lower with technical selling, while cash cattle trade is higher. Michelle Rook talks with DuWayne Bosse of Bolt Marketing.

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Grain and livestock futures mixed on holiday trade. Grains also watching looming demand concerns. So how long can cash grains prices remain historically strong? Michelle Rook with Nick Tsiolis of Farmer’s Keeper.

“We grow rye, alfalfa and oats,” she says. “A lot of conventional farms in Iowa are corn on beans or even just corn on corn.” Andersen was determined to chart a different course by adding small grains to the mix.