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Tidbits, Tariffs, Brazil Crops, Wheat Production, Broilers & Ethanol 11/15/24
Highlights This news report was what kicked soybeans in the head late yesterday morning: a bill to revoke China's (most favored) trade...
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Nov 15, 20245 min read
Tidbits, Ports Strikes, Mexico Crops, Brazil Planting, Broilers & Ethanol 9/26/24
Highlights The US Congress did pass a temporary funding bill yesterday to keep the US government operating until December 20. It is...
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Sep 26, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Pre-hedging, Brazilian Drought 9/16/24
Highlights Brazil’s Supreme Court on Sunday authorized the government to exempt spending on wildfires and droughts in the Amazon and...
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Sep 16, 20245 min read
Tidbits, Rain Days, China Imports 9/15/24
Highlights It is unusual that no rain has fallen nor predicted by the middle of September for Rondonópolis, an area in Brazil's top grain...
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Sep 15, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Crude Oil, Wheat, Brazil 9/14/24
Highlights The supply of US refinery products in the US Gulf Coast, especially the 3 million barrel per day Louisiana refining capacity,...
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Sep 14, 20245 min read
Tidbits, Lock-in Fuel Prices, Crude Oil, Export Sales 9/7/24
Highlights All the weakness in crude oil prices is based upon the gloom and doom predictions for the worlds’ economy, most especially...
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Sep 7, 20245 min read
Tidbits, ProFarmer IA & MN, Brazil, Wheat Crops, Housing, Export Sales 8/23/24
Highlights ProFarmer Tour results and comments by Reuters’ Karen Braun: Minnesota corn yield at 164.9 bu/acre, the tour's lowest since...
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Aug 23, 20245 min read
Tidbits, Pro Farmer Tour, U.S. Economy, Basis in Brazil 8/21/24
Highlights Pro Farmer Nebraska corn yield is up from last year but below 2021's 182.35 record yield. Pod counts for soybeans are a 3 year...
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Aug 21, 20245 min read
Tidbits, Basis Contract Roll, Crude Oil, Brazil Corn, ENSO 7/17/24
Highlights All three wheat classes were lower yesterday, but the price free-fall was stopped by Egypt and Algeria submitted tenders to...
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Jul 17, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Donald Trump, Weather, Brazil 7/14/24
Highlights In this business, when something unusual happens, such as yesterday’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump, one must consider...
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Jul 14, 20243 min read
Tidbits, Mato Grosso, Rainfall, North Korea 6/23/24
The CFTC did not issue its COT report Friday afternoon due to the holiday last week. The COT will be released Monday afternoon. We will...
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Jun 23, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Crop Condition, Russian Crop, Brazilian Market 6/19/24
Highlights IKAR increased its Russian wheat production estimate 500,000 mts to 82.0 mil. mts. The trade was looking for IKAR to lower...
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Jun 19, 20243 min read
Tidbits, Tax Credits in Brazil, Wheat, Bird Flu 6/8/24
Highlights The US jobs data yesterday morning was much better than expected, which is very bad for commodities because good economic news...
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Jun 8, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Brazil, China, Lysine 5/28/24
Highlights Milling wheat in Paris was up $8 per mt (~21.5¢ per bu) due to expectations Russia’s wheat crop will be reduced to the low 80...
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May 28, 20244 min read
Tidbits, PMI & Economy, Brazil’s Harvest, Export Sales 5/24/24
Highlights We had good news about the US economy yesterday morning. S&P Global (an independent agency) reported yesterday morning that...
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May 24, 20243 min read
Tidbits, Crude Oil & Dollar, Brazil Weather 5/4/24
Highlights December corn closed above its 100-day moving average on Thursday, which attracted more technical buying on Friday. Non-farm...
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May 4, 20244 min read
Tidbits, DAP, Brazil, China, Niger 4/17/24
Tidbits Open interest refers to the number of trade positions on the books. The past two days saw the largest increase in open interest...
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Apr 17, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Urea Market, Brazil & China, ENSO, Export Inspections 4/9/24
Highlights StoneX’s fertilizer guy, Josh Linville, reported yesterday afternoon India shocked the global urea market by cutting their...
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Apr 9, 20243 min read
Tidbits, Brazil is on the Brink 4/8/24
Tidbits Canada just increased the Carbon tax by 23%. Farmers are unhappy. Brazil's Politics Political unrest is growing in many around...
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Apr 8, 20244 min read
Tidbits, War Escalations, CO2 Video, Marketing Tools Update 4/7/24
Highlights Brazil’s soybean basis for export shipment has firmed 92¢ from the end of January to this weekend. At 2¢ under the May...
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Apr 7, 20244 min read
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