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Tidbits, Cattle on Feed, Weather, Export Sales 6/21/25
Tidbits The number of daylight minutes will decline every day for the next six months for most of our clients. Yesterday morning, the...
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3 days ago5 min read
Tidbits, Options Expiration, Weather Forecast 6/20/25
Tidbits Crude oil prices surged nearly another 3% on Thursday amid escalating air strikes between Israel and Iran and uncertainty over...
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4 days ago4 min read
Tidbits, June S&D, Israel-Iran & Crude, Drought Monitor, Export Sales 6/13/25
Highlights Israel launched missile strikes on Iran. Crude oil prices spiked by almost $9 but then traded $3 lower from the peak. Israeli...
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Jun 135 min read
Tidbits, Economics, Trade Deals, Weather 6/4/25
Tidbits Bloomberg reports Vietnam is expected to sign deals with the U.S. to increase purchases of ag exports. Corn and DDGS are at the...
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Jun 44 min read
Tidbits, Weather, Crude Oil, Wheat, Trends Education 5/27/25
Tidbits The National Weather Service predicts the Eastern Corn Belt will finally get some dry weather in the next two weeks. Perhaps all...
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May 275 min read
Tidbits, Q&A: Technical Analysis, Weather 5/18/25
Tidbits Weather for the next six days predict Missouri, southern areas of Iowa, Illinois and Indiana will get the most rain, as much as...
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May 185 min read
Tidbits, Soybean Complex & NOPA Crush, Inflation, Weather Forecast, Export Sales 5/16/25
Tidbits Soybeans traded sharply lower yesterday because bean oil traded down the 3¢ per pound daily limit yesterday morning. That was...
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May 165 min read
Tidbits, Global Estimates, Fertilizers, Spring Weather, Broiler & Ethanol 2/21/25
Highlights March CBOT options expire today which usually means lower prices. The expected hot weather in Argentina this weekend sent...
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Feb 215 min read
Tidbits, Crude Oil, SA Weather, Mexico & GMO Corn, US Export Sales 2/7/25
Highlights Crude oil futures lost a dollar Thursday morning and closed about 40¢ lower after President Donald Trump repeated a pledge to...
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Feb 75 min read
Tidbits, Basis is Negotiable, Argentine Weather, Crop Budgets 1/20/25
Ag market futures will resume trading at normal time this evening. Crude oil began trading as its usual time last evening, namely 5 PM...
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Jan 203 min read
Tidbits, SA Weather & ENSO, Panama Canal, Hogs, Export Inspections 12/24/24
Highlights The Equatorial Pacific Surface Water temperature has dropped a half °C the past two reporting weeks and is now 1° below...
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Dec 24, 20245 min read
Tidbits, Q&A: HTA Contract, Canada's Export 12/1/24
Highlights Trump’s newly appointed counterterrorism adviser, Sebastian Gorka, says Trump plans to end the Ukraine war by threatening to...
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Dec 1, 20245 min read
Tidbits, South American Soybean Situation, Farm Income 11/23/24
Tidbits Yesterday morning, the USDA announced the sale of 198,000 mts of old crop beans to unknown. The USDA forecasts net farm income...
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Nov 23, 20246 min read
Tidbits, Weather Forecasting, Brazil, ENSO, Wheat 11/12/24
Tidbits Weekly Export Inspections will be released today at 10:00 a.m. CDT. Crop Progress and Conditions will be released after the close...
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Nov 12, 20245 min read
Tidbits, DP, Drought, Export Sales 10/19/24
Highlights Yesterday morning, the USDA announced the sale of: 21,000 mts of old crop soybean oil to Mexico 125,000 mts of old crop corn...
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Oct 19, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Oils, Estimates, Weather, Brazil-Mexico, Broilers & Ethanol 10/10/24
Highlights The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) weekly report highlights: U.S. ethanol production was up; market expected it...
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Oct 10, 20245 min read
Tidbits, Crude Oil, Hurricane 10/9/24
Highlights The river gauge at Memphis will restrict barge drafts by October 13th if no rain comes this week. Weather Monday night poured...
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Oct 9, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Corn Price History, USDA’s Wheat Production, Hurricane 10/6/24
Tidbits The Spec funds and the Index funds were net buyers of corn, soybeans and all three classes of wheat on the Commitment of Traders...
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Oct 6, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Pre-Hedging, IGC’s Outlook, Precipitation, Export Sales 9/20/24
Highlights The International Grains Council (IGC) predicts record large global grain production and record large global consumption for...
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Sep 20, 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
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