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  On The Grains:   I hope everyone had a restful Thanksgiving yesterday with family and friends. Though I won’t ever cheer for the Cowboys, I am never sad to see the Chiefs lose. Back to the grains, this week was not the quiet holiday week that many expected, with impressive gains in both corn and soybeans posted Wednesday. As we mentioned in the broker comments Wednesday, the market was anticipating large export sales, and those sales were confirmed today by the USDA with 312,000 metric tons of soybeans to China and 273,000 metric tons of corn to unknown destinations. Though much of this was traded Wednesday, we did see follow through today in both the corn and soybeans, which is positive for both charts from a technical perspective as we close out the week. South American weather looks mostly favorable with moderate temperatures and rainfall scattered across much of the growing region, meanwhile storms are set to bring heavy snow and cold temperatures to much of the Midwest over the next several days.   December Corn:       435’2  +3’4 January Beans:      1137’2  +5’6 December Oats:       294’6  -9’2   December Spring Wheat:      579’2  -0’4 December Chicago Wheat:     531’0  +2’0 December…

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