Commodity markets, however, wait for no one and, like our politics, grain futures have been slipping, sliding and slouching since early summer. | File photo

Congress plays games as grain markets continue to go south

Evidence continues to pile up that today’s political and grain market pile-ups will be bigger and messier than first thought. Right now, it’s political carnage that’s making headlines. I’m old enough to remember when Congress’s biggest worry was foreign bombs, not bombast, and when congressional leaders muzzled their party’s empty-headed lip flappers. Not today, though. […] Read more