I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and those that did not look at the market last Friday may have had a little better weekend. Just about every market we […]

You would think we would be used to these radical changes of direction by the market after the past two years, but they still cause me whiplash. Just when all […]

The November report is usually not a very exciting one but it is typically the last adjustments USDA makes on yield until the “final” estimate in January. Soybeans Beans have […]

Corn In contrast to last week, the grain markets struggled all week this week. Last week was a reminder that corn can trade like an energy commodity. Corn gained most […]

Corn Corn, Wheat and Cotton have all had a very strong week. The way corn traded up double digits several times this week everyone was asking what new news had […]

Today’s report was widely expected to be bearish and USDA delivered. With the weakness coming into the report, we were hoping the market had the report priced in but the […]

Harvest was moving along in the Midwest until the rain this week brought many areas to a stop. Yield reports so far have generally been right around expectations, some areas […]

Today USDA gave us final stocks numbers from last crop year corn and beans. The stocks reports come out each quarter (compared to monthly for the supply and demand updates). […]

Sunday night opened with fireworks and not in a good way. News out of China was that a very large real estate company, called Evergrande Group, was about to default […]

Dry warm weather has made for a very fast corn harvest pace in the southeast. Above seasonal temps across the entire country means there is no threat for an early […]