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Tidbits, Iran & Crude Oil, Crop Progress, ENSO, Export Inspections 6/24/25
Tidbits On June 23, crude oil prices plummeted over 6%, after Iran launched a missile attack on the U.S. military base at Al Udeid in...
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4 days ago5 min read
Tidbits, 45Z & Bean Oil, Corn Market, Crop Progress, ENSO, Export Inspections 6/17/25
Highlights Bio Fuel consultant, Corey Lavinsky, reports the Senate's proposed changes to the 45Z clean fuel credit have been released &...
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Jun 175 min read
Tidbits, Soybean Trade, Wheat Estimates, Crop Progress, ENSO, Export Inspections 6/10/25
Tidbits Former Minnesota farmer, now Brazil’s 25-year experienced agricultural consultant, Kory Melby, posted on X yesterday afternoon:...
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Jun 104 min read
Tidbits, April Crush, Crop Progress, PMI, ENSO, Export Inspections 6/3/25
Tidbits The USDA reported the crush numbers for April after the close yesterday. The soybean crush was 202 million bushels. That is 13.5%...
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Jun 34 min read
Tidbits, Wheat Marketing, Crop Progress, ENSO, Export Inspections 5/28/25
Tidbits Corn planting progress is now at 87% vs 85% 5-year average. Corn crop conditions were rated at 68% good or excellent vs 75% this...
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May 285 min read
Tidbits, Oil Demand, Crop Progress, ENSO, Export Inspections 5/20/25
Tidbits Late morning yesterday, President Trump issued this press release: Yesterday morning the USDA announced the sale of 145,000 mts...
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May 204 min read
Tidbits, China Trade Deal, S&D Report, Crop Progress, ENSO, Export Inspections 5/13/25
Highlights The U.S. and China trade agreement details announced yesterday morning: A 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs. Both Countries...
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May 134 min read
Tidbits, Corn, Crop Progress, ENSO, Export Inspections 5/6/25
Tidbits There were two major factors that crushed the corn market yesterday: A weather forecast which will allow most of the nation’s...
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May 64 min read
Tidbits, Wheat Lows, Crop Progress, ENSO, Export Inspections 4/29/25
Tidbits Today is the day to liquidate all May long futures positions and basis contracts to avoid any chance of delivery on May futures. ...
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Apr 294 min read
Tidbits, China Trade War, Crop Progress, ENSO, Export Inspections 4/22/25
Tidbits China made several announcements yesterday which show they are going to advance their effort to counter the U.S. trade actions...
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Apr 224 min read
Tidbits, Rice, Crop Progress, Ethanol & Oil Demand, ADM, ENSO, Export Inspections 4/15/25
Tidbits The markets will be closed on 18 April, Good Friday. Yesterday morning, the USDA announced the sale of 120,000 mts of old crop...
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Apr 155 min read
Tidbits, More Tariffs, US Planting, ENSO, Export Inspections 4/8/25
Highlights On 2 April, Trump applied an additional 34% reciprocal tariffs on China added to the existing 20% duties already applied to...
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Apr 85 min read
Tidbits, Prospective Plantings & Grain Stocks, ENSO, Export Inspections 4/1/25
Highlights Often we have written and said: “The expectation of an event will move the market more than confirmation of that event.”...
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Apr 14 min read
Tidbits, Acres Estimates, PMI, Black Sea Grain, ENSO, Export Inspections 3/25/25
Highlights Pro Farmer released their U.S. planting projections on Friday. They expect 3.5% more corn acres at 93.75 million acres and a...
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Mar 254 min read
Tidbits, Bean Meal & NOPA Crush, Brazilian Crops Progress, ENSO, Export Inspections 3/18/25
Tidbits President Trump and President Putin are scheduled to have a phone conversation this morning regarding the negotiations of a...
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Mar 185 min read
Tidbits, Used Cooking Oil, China Imports, ENSO, Export Inspections 3/11/25
Highlights At 11 AM Central Time, the USDA will release its March S&D. It will be neutral for the market at the worst. Despite all the...
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Mar 114 min read
Tidbits, Tariffs & Programs, Crush Data, ENSO, Export Inspections 3/4/25
Highlights President Trump will give his State of the Union Address this evening at 8 PM Central Time. He says he will make a major...
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Mar 45 min read
Tidbits, Corn & Beans, Chinese Pork, Indian Oil, ENSO, Export Inspections 2/25/25
Tidbits Corn was hit hard yesterday by the expected increase in 2025 acres, improved weather in South America, and first notice day for...
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Feb 255 min read
Tidbits, USA-Russia Talks, NOPA Crush, Biodiesel, Wheat, ENSO, Export Inspections 2/19/25
Highlights Yesterday, Saudi Arabia hosted the first talks between Russia and the U.S. since the start of the war in Ukraine . President...
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Feb 195 min read
Tidbits, Q&A: ENSO & Open Interest 2/16/25
Tidbits Agriculture futures markets will not trade until tomorrow evening at normal times. Crude oil will trade normal hours this evening...
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Feb 165 min read
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