Market Monitor: The big crop keeps getting bigger
One axiom in the grade trade is that big crops keep getting bigger. This does not necessarily mean that the crop improves, but that...
Wet rainy weather delays 2013 harvest
It should not surprise us that rainy weather has delayed harvest. It delayed planting, and cool weather did not allow the crop to catch...
Delayed harvest may mean stronger prices
The grain harvest delay has been the excuse needed to see prices perk up a little.
Grain markets adjust to new crop
If the harvest is disappointing, we could see a rally into the late harvest. If not, we have not yet seen the low.
Grain markets in middle of ugly, inevitable transition into the new crop
As corn prices have gone down, it has felt at times like we have left the slide completely and will fall to our financial deaths.
Weather market: Hold onto your hat (and call your grain buyer ASAP)
Two weeks from now we may know more about this grain market, but it may be too late. Catch this market while there is fear in it.
Long-term trend may not be friendly, (and long live the K-cycle)
What exactly will happen with markets? Marlin Clark has a few insights...
Was Pappy Maverick wrong? (When buying land isn’t a good idea for farmers)
World population, U.S. farm productivity, Earl Butz and Bret Maverick: What should farmers believe?
Ohio’s grain indemnity fund is more than insurance
I read with great interest Kristy Foster Seachrist’s article last week in the Farm and Dairy about changes in the grain indemnity law in...
Grain market crash takes a breather
This is the middle of July and we should be seeing sunshine and 85 degree weather. My hope for great crops is gone.
