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2025 Soybean & Corn Market Plan 3/23/25
2025 Soybean Market Plan: Specific Reasons and Steps The number of days that November soybeans traded into the top 25% of each calendar...
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Mar 235 min read
2025 Corn Market Plan 3/16/25
World corn supplies are smaller compared to usage than they have been for at least 8 years and significantly tighter than they were in...
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Mar 164 min read
Tidbits, Carryover, S&D Report, Export Sales 9/13/24
Carryover and S&D The three most important factors in governing the future price direction of a given commodity are carryover, carryover,...
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Sep 13, 20245 min read
Tidbits, The Low For The Year, Urea Prices 9/8/24
Market Comment After 4 to 6 days of gains, corn, wheat, and beans all closed lower Friday, which is a down day if the markets had been...
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Sep 8, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Wheat Marketing, July Crush, Crop Conditions, ENSO, Export Inspections 9/4/24
Highlights The USDA reported the crush numbers for July: Soybean crush in July was 193 million bushels, 8 million bushels more (4.3%)...
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Sep 4, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Contracts Roll Math & Options, OPEC+, Broilers & Ethanol 8/29/24
Highlights Statistics Canada reported yesterday the 2024 Canadian corn crop is 15.229 million mts, down 1.2% from last year. The average...
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Aug 29, 20246 min read
Tidbits, Merchandiser's Advice, Key Reversal, Canada and China 8/28/24
Tidbits Soft red winter wheat made a key reversal yesterday, which occurs when the price of a stock or commodity makes a new low and...
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Aug 28, 20245 min read
Tidbits, Wheat Hedge, ProFarmer IL & IA, Jobs Cut, ENSO, Broilers & Ethanol 8/22/24
Highlights ProFarmer Tour 2024 results for Illinois were up 5.4% year-on-year, topping the old tour high of 196.96 from 2014. USDA sees...
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Aug 22, 20245 min read
Tidbits, Q&A: Corn Trade Deal, China's Economy 8/17/24
Highlights After gaining more than $3 on Monday, then losing $2.62 the next two days before gaining $1.15 on Thursday, crude oil prices...
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Aug 17, 20245 min read
Fall Delivery Basis 8/4/24
Make Decision This Week About Fall Delivery Basis Last year the same recommendation was made about setting fall delivery basis in late...
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Aug 4, 20243 min read
Tidbits, Capturing the Carry, US Economy, Urea Market 8/3/24
Highlights On Wednesday, a giddy euphoria about the US economy prevailed on the “certain” prospects for lower interest rates in...
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Aug 3, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Fuel Pricing, Marketing Prior S&D, Yield Estimates & Harvest, Export Sales 8/2/24
Highlights StoneX predicts the US corn will yield 182.3 (USDA 181) and beans 52.6 (USDA 52). The US soybean crush in June was 183.7...
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Aug 2, 20244 min read
Tidbits, How to Decide to Store Grain 7/29/24
Tidbits Last evening it was raining in Northern Iowa and Southern Illinois and moving east to the dry Eastern Corn Belt. Of course,...
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Jul 29, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Marketing Comments, Crop Conditions, Deliveries, Export Inspections 7/2/24
Market Comment Kevin Duling from Maupin, Oregon sent these comments to his clients yesterday afternoon about the USDA numbers: "After the...
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Jul 1, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Basis Contracts & Marketing Decisions, Palm Oil 6/26/24
Marketing Comments July basis contracts must be rolled or priced by the close of business tomorrow. We highly recommend you do what you...
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Jun 26, 20244 min read
How to Decide when to Price Grain & Corn Outlook 6/19/24
The age-old problem is how to decide when to price your grain futures for cash sales. The futures price is very volatile, and some...
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Jun 20, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Q&A on Marketing 6/16/24
Q&A Received 3 PM Central Wednesday 13 June 2024: If we are “lucky” enough to have old crop corn and beans, should we roll to August...
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Jun 16, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Weather Impact on Prices, Corn Highs & Lows 6/12/24
Q&A Question from from Travis: As we move forward with this current crop having very good crop ratings… when would you suggest we get rid...
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Jun 12, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Wheat Marketing, Inflation, Crude Oil 5/15/24
Highlights Yesterday’s Producer Price Index (PPI=inflation at the wholesale level) for April was up 0.5%. The market expected +0.3%. In...
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May 15, 20245 min read
Tidbits, SAF Qualification, Wheat Marketing, Market & Rain Days Update 5/1/24
Highlights The road map for corn ethanol and soy oil to qualify for the SAF $40 billion of subsidies was released by the Biden...
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May 1, 20244 min read
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