Farm Bureau speaker praises ethanol's impact

URBANA – Potential prices of both corn and soybeans depend heavily on what farmers do in their fields this spring.

Illinois Farm Bureau analyst Jim Gill, speaking to farmers attending the 95th annual Champaign County Farm Bureau meeting, linked planted acreage directly to market prices that got a jolt Friday when government crop counters reduced both the size of the 2006 crop and the size of corn stocks on hand in the country.

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