The comment period pertaining to new farm hauling/vehicle classification as it relates to intrastate and interstate movements of grain has been extended by the Department of Transportation until the first of August. We all need to speak up about the issue of commercial driver's licenses (CDLs).

There are numerous resources that give day-to-day (minute to minute) market/price commentary as part of various services connected to their cash and futures business. The gist of a couple of calls the past few weeks are connected to price forecasting in "risk management" tied to the $1.00/bu+run-up in corn prices this month. My desire in these weekly grain comments is to share a perspective on topics that will have a mercantile impact but may not be necessarily on today's grain market and trade recap.