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Next week will be an important week for beans. Hopefully they can recover like the cattle market did last week. The December WASDE report will be released Tuesday. This report should not be a big move...
The USDA continues to release backed up reports a week at a time. At this rate it might be Easter before they catch up. So far, these reports have not really moved the market. The next market moving r...
We ended last week with corn 5 cents lower while beans were steady for the week. China did step in and buy some beans, but they have a long way to go if they are serious about buying what our governme...
Going forward beans may have a rough road as world stocks are plentiful, and the South America crop is off to a good start. The high cost of inputs for corn in this country may push more acres into be...
Remember the old days when a 2 or 3 cent price change from one day to the next was a big move? It is far from that way anymore. Last Thursday’s bean market was a perfect example. Beans opened lo...
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 ...
