Market Commentary 

The futures markets are finding little support today as we move into the weekend and the last week of April. We have seen a positive week for the most part as corn traded above $8.00, with beans exceeding $17.50...

The grain markets are working feverously today to buy more corn acres, post-release of this week’s USDA crop report. (See below for more information from my colleagues). With April here, we will focus weekly on planted acres and weather forecast...

The USDA will be releasing its spring planting intentions report along with grain stocks usage numbers on Thursday, March 31...

It’s been another week of absolutely insane futures trading at the CME. We continue to trade large inverses in all feed grain and soybean markets. The values would suggest that we need the commodities now, and producers have responded to the demand...

The commodity markets are trading at historical levels for this time of year. Much will be said that it has to do with the ongoing conflict in Europe, and while this is very unsettling, ...

It was a short trading week with the holiday Monday, but it sure was filled with shockwaves. We’re seeing huge money flow in both directions as traders digest the headlines. The Russian invasion of Ukraine makes it difficult to determine fair values across all sectors, ...

his sure was another week of some wild weather, we sure have a lot of ponds to look at for a while now. The nice weather at the beginning of the week did allow the farmers to once again move grain...

The USDA released its latest round of supply/demand estimates on Wednesday and made only minor changes. The only major adjustment was to the anticipated Brazilian bean crop production estimate...

The grain future markets find themselves trading close to life of contract highs as we approach the end of January. Soybeans have rebounded some fifty cents on the week, while corn has added close to twenty cents. The trade is anticipating additional spring sales to China as we c...

The commodities futures market had a very good week with soybeans trading close to fifty cents higher and corn looking at a twenty-cent gain. The southern hemisphere weather continues to be a concern; while they saw some precipitation this week, there were also 100+ temperatures ...