Why Midwest crop farmers are having a logistics problem

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  NPR.

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  Election Day.

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  Election Day.

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  I know, I know.

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  It's always a conundrum for business reporters like us.

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  It is obviously the most important day of the year for the future of the world.

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  Everything, really.

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  And yet here we are, like everyone else, nothing to do but wait.

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  We have explained all the stakes.

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  We've broken down the economic plans of the candidates, and now we should just.

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  Go to our happy place and see how it plays out.

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  The happy place?

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  You mean the Beige Book?

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  The Beige Book, our favorite government document that details the current economic conditions at least as of late October.

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  Soon to be a little out of.

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  Date, sure, but its lessons will live on in our hearts.

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  That's why we make it into an awards show.

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  It's the Beijing Awards, our eight times a year salute to the art and science of telling stories about the economy.

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  I'm Robert Smith.

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  And I'm Weyland Wong.

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