Young farmer girl examing soybean plant during harvest
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Illinois soybean farmers are enjoying a bumper crop this year, but are struggling to find buyers after their biggest market imploded.

Now they are looking to the container shipping sector to develop emerging markets for their crop.

In the fiscal year that ended 31 August 2017, Illinois produced a record harvest of 619m bushels of soybean, followed by a 690m bushel crop last year. However, finding ...

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