Market Commentary 

We find ourselves this afternoon with corn markets trading a dime higher on the week and beans roughly unchanged. Since last week’s crop report the market has turned its attention to the excellent weather conditions for planting and the 11–14-day...

April is well underway with much to be done as everyone finishes servicing equipment and get ready to hit the ground rolling with planting season upon us.

We find ourselves trading a dime higher on corn and fifty cents on the plus side on beans for the week. I am reporting as we approach the noon hour and one of the major crop reports of the season...

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! We are putting the final touches on an interesting week in the commodity markets. We find corn trading twenty cents stronger and beans doing the opposite at twenty lower for the week.

The USDA released its latest supply/demand update this week and made minor adjustments to the export figures. Corn showed a reduction of 75 million bushels putting the carry-out figure at 1.342 billion bushels. Meanwhile beans were looking at a slight increase of 25MB, thus an en...

The grain market’s have been trading on both sides of unchanged this week. Traders seem to be focused on weather issues in the southern hemisphere, too much rain in the north, and continued heat in the south. 

We are rapidly coming to the end of February and Mother Nature is reminding us we are in OHIO. Hard to believe in just six weeks we could see planters in the fields in southern Ohio...

This week the commodity markets have been seasonably quiet with corn trading a nickel lower and beans down fifteen cents on the week...

This week brought the monthly supply and demand report from the USDA. They made only a few small changes to the US numbers...

This week has been somewhat of a quiet week in the commodity market with corn trading five cents lower and beans up twenty cents...