At the end of June, the Kansas City Board of Trade, founded in 1856 by Kansas City merchants, will begin trading Kansas City wheat futures in Chicago.
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Jac T. Bowen constructed "Sheaves of Wheat," in 1966, from 1/2 mile of brass tubing. The relief depicts eight major grains - wheat, corn, sorghum, grain sorghum, oats, rye, barley and soybeans.
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A sparrow chirps on a tassel of corn.
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The building will be sold with the artwork intact.
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CME Group Inc., the new owner of the Kansas City Board of Trade plans to sell the building housing the exchange.
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"Heartland Harvest," was created in 1999 by Joel Marquardt with Gastinger Walker Harden Architects.
The Kansas City Board of Trade is slated to close its trading floor on June 28 after more than 150 years in Kansas City. In December, CME Group bought the exchange and plans to move operations to Chicago. The Board of Trade building at 4800 Main is on the market, including one of Jac T. Bowen's sculptures.
Long a symbol of agriculture’s strength in America’s heartland, the Kansas City Board of Trade has an uncertain future in the wake of its proposed sale to a rival exchange.
