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Here we are in the last week of October and for a lot of our customers harvest is either finished or nearing completion. It used to be that you hoped to be done by Thanksgiving, and now you push to be...
It appeared last week some funds were starting to offset part of their short positions which gave the markets some strength. There has been wide talk of disappointing corn yields throughout the Midwes...
Showing a profit on the 2025 crop will be very difficult. Showing one for the 2026 crop may be impossible. None of us like dealing with bad news, but we need to face the facts here and start working o...
Had the government not shut down, the USDA would have released their October WASDE report this Thursday which would have contained some actual yield numbers. Now this report is postponed for the time ...
Harvest pressure started to kick in last week as more combines started to roll across the corn belt. The weather forecast for the next 7 to 10 days says the pace will pick up and continue. The focus w...
We had an up and down week and ended lower last week. December corn lost 7 cents while November beans were 12 lower. We saw some good corn export business, but that was not enough to get the bulls exc...
The USDA released their September WASDE report last Friday. If you remember back to the August report, they added 3 million acres of planted corn and reduced the soybean acres by a couple of million. ...
The amount of southern rust has people concerned and they are cutting their losses and harvesting on the early side. It appears that applying a corn fungicide paid a big dividend this year. We are see...
Last week we saw a lot of give and take in the markets. Sometimes we must take a step back and look at things in a whole world perspective. Looking across the road or down the highway only gives us a ...
A bigger story was the release of the annual Pro Farmer crop tour results which were released after the markets closed Friday. Their national corn yield came in at 182.7 versus the 188.8 the USDA used...
