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This past week March corn was 2 cents higher while January beans ended the week 6 cents lower. Most of the bean losses came in the last 2 days of the week. Traders have been reluctant to carry risk th...
Last Wednesday afternoon corn and beans were both higher for the week on the board. Then Friday hit and we went south as beans led the way down. For the week March corn was 3 cents lower while January...
Harvest is mostly done, and farmers are normally content to wait until after January 1 to move grain. Southern Iowa was blessed with a larger crop than we expected so the threat of a wall of corn comi...
Just when it appeared the corn market may have hit bottom and was on the verge of recovery, the November WASDE report dashed our hopes. Last Thursday’s report was supposed to be a sleeper. We s...
Harvest is almost behind us, and it is only the first week of November. Most of us were concerned going into harvest we might be disappointed with the yields. However, it seems the crops did well in m...
Two weeks ago, the commodities were all higher, this past week they were all lower. Corn finished the week 15 cents lower while beans were a nickel lower.
With harvest well past the halfway point and talk of some impending Chinese buying perhaps we have put a harvest low in. However, if these sales don’t happen soon, we could easily trade back dow...
It was an odd weather year to say the least. Normally when we see an early and fast harvest we are dealing with a short crop. That isn’t the case for a lot of areas this year. The hot and dry ...
Crop yields have been all over the board, but we keep reading and hearing that most producers are finding better yields than they were expecting. The question is were their expectations too low or i...
Last week we had a decent little rally going as we headed into the quarterly grain stocks report on Friday. Within minutes of its release the board took away all the week’s gains and then some o...