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Tidbits Soybeans: The U.S. may not be selling soybeans to the world’s largest soybean importer (China), but it looks like the U.S. will be selling beans to the world’s largest soybean producer (Brazil), which sells most of its beans to China. Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, Brazil soybean crushing plants near Brazil’s ports are running the numbers on importing U.S. soybeans instead of trying to get beans from the West Central area of Brazil, which is 600 to 1,000 miles away from t

November Crude Oil marked its high 20 cents below the 64.40 resistance level, then sold off almost 1.20 from the high to the low. support...

Tidbits Farm aid: The U.S. Republican farm-state lawmakers urge the Trump administration to issue autumn farm aid by year-end due to low crop prices and a trade war. Four lawmakers are in talks with USDA and other officials about an aid package, ideally by December. Senator John Hoeven cites a similar $23 billion payout during Trump’s first term to offset China trade losses and suggests adding aid to a spending bill; he says farmers need help soon, but by year-end is acceptab

Dec Wheat - Steady Dec Corn - Steady to 1.00 Lower Dec Bean Oil - Steady to 0.01 Higher Nov Beans - Steady to 1.25 Lower October Crude...

Grain market summary of price outlook, seasonal situation, fundamental & technical analysis with our recommendations for corn , soybeans and wheat (Soft Red Winter, Hard Red Winter & Spring), fuel and fertilizer for past week Wednesday to Tuesday. Read about our approach to this report here . We provide three different marketing plans (in order of decreasing our preference). The marketing decision is yours to make, obviously you can mix those plans, change the sales size or

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Dec Wheat - 0.50 Lower Dec Corn - 0.25 Higher to 1.00 Lower Dec Bean Oil - Steady Nov Beans - Steady to 1.00 Lower October Crude Oil...

Tidbits NOPA crush  for August was expected to be 182.857 million bushels; actual was 189.810 million bushels, a 20% increase from a year ago. Better yet, soy oil stocks were 53 million pounds less than expected at 1.245 billion pounds. Flash sale: Yesterday morning, the USDA announced the sale of 148.971 mts of 2025 corn to unknown. China: President Trump said yesterday he would be speaking to Chinese President Xi this Friday. Poland’s closed border with Belarus has frozen t

Dec Wheat - 1.00 Lower Dec Corn - 0.75 Higher to 1.00 Lower Dec Bean Oil - 0.04 Higher Nov Beans - Steady to 0.50 Higher October Crude...

Tidbits Corn Acres:  Zaner Ag Hedge Chief Analyst, Karen Braun, asked USDA/NASS via their chatline (paraphrased): Karen prepared state-by-state corn acres reported in June vs corn acres in September. Note the biggest acreage increases percentage wise were in Mississippi, North Dakota, Kansas, Arkansas, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin, and Ohio. Together, Nebraska and Minnesota added 850,000 acres.

World Free-On-Board Grain & Oilseed Prices for September 13, 2025

Dec Wheat - 1.25 Lower Dec Corn - 2.00 to 3.00 Lower Dec Bean Oil - 0.10 Lower Nov Beans - Steady to 1.59 Lower Crude Price - 62.69, down...

October Crude Oil marked its high price 17 cents below the 64.15 resistance level, after rallying almost 2.30 from the low, which was...

It's our weekly US grain market prices analysis and outlook for corn, soybeans and wheat. Dow Jones  Industrial Average Index settled on Friday at 45,834, +433 points for the week. Crude oil  settled at $62.6, +0.63. Dollar Index  settled at 97.615, -0.12. Baltic Dry Index  (a shipping freight-cost index)  settled at 2,126, +147. Corn December futures settled at $4.30, +12¢ for the week. Basis   (Z = December; e.g. 10Z means 10¢ over Dec futures) (Futures price + Basis = Cash

Tidbits Yield:  Darren Frye of Water Street Commodities in Peoria has been a market analyst for 42 years and is well respected in the business. He is not afraid to say what he thinks no matter who is listening. After Friday’s USDA numbers were released he wrote on X: "I am lowering my yield range in corn to 170-175 (USDA 186.7) . USDA will be coming down big on next report. People think it was a perfect year for corn. Well, the corn is speaking and it is saying this is an “ep

Tidbits Flash sale: Yesterday morning, the USDA announced the sale of 22,000 mts of soybean oil to South Korea.   Tariffs:  U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet with the Chinese Vice Premier this coming week in Madrid to discuss national security, economic and trade issues.   The Financial Times reports the U.S. is pushing a plan for all G7 partners to adopt steep tariffs on China and India because of their purchasing of Russian crude oil.   Brazil:  The former con

The numbers were: Negative Corn and Soybeans Neutral Wheat    CBOT 30 Minutes After Report Dec corn +1 Nov beans +6 July CBOT wheat -3...

Tidbits The USDA will release its September World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) at 11 AM Central Time today. As expected, CBOT ag markets were higher yesterday as they recovered from oversold conditions the previous two days. The market will trade the production numbers in the few first minutes or so after the report is released, then the market will trade the U.S. carryover numbers for 3 to 20 minutes, and then the market will trade the world carryovers in

Dec Wheat - 0.25 to 0.50 Lower Dec Corn - Steady Dec Bean Oil - 0.04 Lower Nov Beans - 0.50 Higher to 0.50 Lower October Crude Oil marked...

Tidbits CBOT grain and oilseed markets  are usually lower the two to four days before the USDA releases its monthly S&D. Yesterday, everything except bean oil was lower after being lower on Tuesday. Typically, prices reach a price low enough that some of the shorts (traders who sold before they buy) decide to take some profit and liquidate their short position by buying futures which results in a very modest rally the day before the S&D. The September S&D will be issued at 10