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World Free-On-Board Grain & Oilseed Prices for November 8, 2025

World Free-On-Board Grain & Oilseed Prices for November 1, 2025

Tidbits Tariffs: Yesterday, President Trump signed trade deals with Thailand, Malaysia, and Cambodia. Tariffs on most of their exports to the U.S. will remain at 19%. Thailand and Malaysia will increase exports of rare earth minerals to the U.S. while allowing increased access of U.S. products to all three countries' markets. At the annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, President Lula of Brazil and Trump talked for nearly an hour yesterday and indicat

World Free-On-Board Grain & Oilseed Prices for October 25, 2025

World Free-On-Board Grain & Oilseed Prices for October 11, 2025

World Free-On-Board Grain & Oilseed Prices for October 4, 2025

Tidbits The Quarterly Grain Stocks Report will be issued tomorrow at 11 AM Central. This September stocks report includes a look back at the last three marketing years to see if the current inventory is reasonable given the crop production and consumption numbers of each of those years. Once every 10 or so years, there is a huge surprise in September. However, during the past six years, USDA has made some adjustments “out-of-schedule” for past marketing years. The most rece

World Free-On-Board Grain & Oilseed Prices for September 27, 2025

World Free-On-Board Grain & Oilseed Prices for September 20, 2025

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

Tidbits Harvest: There were many more areas in the Corn Belt than we expected that started harvest this weekend. The early yield results were reported to be less than expected, even areas where the weather was considered quite good, such as Northwest Iowa. Maybe the better-than-expected yields, if any, did not get reported. Of course, the worst yields for the 2025 crop will be the early harvest acres given the August weather. The Corn Belt weather for the next two wee

World Free-On-Board Grain & Oilseed Prices for September 6, 2025

Tidbits Soybean crush: The USDA July soybean crush report will be issued tomorrow. It is expected to be up 7.2% from a year ago at 207.2 million bushels, the largest July crush on record and 5th largest of any month. India-Pakistan: More than a million people in Pakistan have been displaced in the Punjab province as the worst flooding there in four decades caused havoc in hundreds of villages and submerged vital grains crops. Torrential monsoon rain and neighboring India's

World Free-On-Board Grain & Oilseed Prices for August 30, 2025

World Free-On-Board Grain & Oilseed Prices for August 23, 2025

World Free-On-Board Grain & Oilseed Prices for August 16, 2025

World Free-On-Board Grain & Oilseed Prices for August 9, 2025

World Free-On-Board Grain & Oilseed Prices for August 2, 2025

World Free-On-Board Grain & Oilseed Prices for July 26, 2025