Grain harvest window closes again
U.S. grain prices continue to anticipate a huge harvest by going lower. We keep hoping the bottom is in on the charts, but then we slip lower.
Miracle Max grain market moves lower
The grain market is just "mostly dead." We still have the race to find out what the average crop is. If we have over-estimated the size, prices will stabilize. If the huge crop is really rolling in, the worst is still ahead of us.
Market Monitor: Ugly transitional year defines market
For the last month traders, processors, and farmers have been frozen by our limbo market, wondering how low we can go.
Market Monitor: Ugly transitional year defines market
For the last month traders, processors, and farmers have been frozen by our limbo market, wondering how low we can go. We have focused...
Market Monitor: This has been a strange summer
This has been the summer of worrying about maturing crops, of enjoying the rains that were filling the soybeans and struggling to bale hay without getting it rained on three times.
Huge crop or early frost: Race is on
Crunch time in the grain markets: If we confirm a huge crop with early harvest, the lows are not yet in.
Good weather grain market continues
Grain prices have mostly continued lower the last week, although wheat shows signs of a bottom and the soybeans have had erratic trading that seems like indecision day-traders taking profits.
USDA report shocks the grain market
After the June 30 USDA acreage and stocks reports, we are looking at the worst one-day trading in years, and the market is struggling to decide what low prices really are.
Great weather brings poor grain prices
It is hard to argue with the direction of the corn market, which has been down. It is also hard to envision a scenario where we can justify a big weather market.
Market outlook: Great weather, slipping grain prices
Prices continue to slip lower on the Chicago Board of Trade as the traders get the impression that the weather is perfect and that...
