Market Commentary 

Good afternoon. Another wild week in the markets. The back and forth of tariffs sure had things all over the place. One interesting fact is that the USDA announced export sales of three cargoes of old crop beans and one cargo of new crop beans to unknown destinatio...

Good afternoon. The weeks just are flying by for sure. We had a bit of a data overload this week with all the reports. 

Good afternoon. Looks like a rainy and mild end of March coming for us. According to Dayton news stations we could see up to 2” of rain by the end of Monday. That should make the subsoil fully charged up heading into the growing season, if it doesn’t come al...

Good afternoon. Hope everyone enjoyed that warm weather earlier this week. It looks like we are going to be in a more seasonal pattern for the next week. We continue to see above-normal rain chances for the next week also.

Good afternoon. It sure has been another wild week in the corn market. Things started out higher to begin the week, but the market sentiment since Wednesday has been one of risk-off.

Good afternoon and welcome to March. It always feels good to have February in the rear view mirror. Daylight savings time starts this weekend, so don’t forget those clocks.

As we round out the week and month's end, the grain markets appear to be struggling. Yesterday, we had a first look into the 25/26 crop year with acreage and yield numbers published from the Ag Forum.

It was a quiet close to the week, with the bulls unable to hold momentum. CZ25 ran out of steam at $4.80 after an impressive two-month rally. We saw a fair amount of old crop and new crop corn sales from farmers this week, and rightfully so.

President Trump’s tariff talk has been the main headline again this week. He started off the week mentioning plans to put reciprocal tariffs in place and rounded out the week by revealing his plan for said tariffs.

Good afternoon once again. Wildcards seem to be the theme these days. Tariffs, weather, exports, domestic crush margins. Everything just seems to have a wildcard out there to be played.