Prices moderate on better weather: Future prices are taking wild ride due to crop...
It is hard to be a poor-producing state in a good year.
Grain markets are looking for Mr. Good News
Our fearless grain commentator, Marlin Clark, is brutally honest this week: "I am looking for something to excite me in the market, and it just isn’t there."
Market Monitor Report bounce goes away, bailout effects unknown
When USDA released their monthly Crop Production and Supply and Demand Reports May 11, the market saw glimmers of hope amongst the nuggets of...
Grain market higher and experts struggling to explain
Grain markets are moving higher on the Chicago Board of Trade this Tuesday morning, April 19, and analysts are struggling to explain why this recent rally continues.
Huge crops, but not true in the Northeast
Spotty rains are not erasing the drought areas on the maps, and worried farmers say that the country may be having a big crop, but it is not happening in their backyard.
Spring is off to gloomy start in the markets
Spring is here and the price skids so far have been as ugly as the weather.
It’s a weather grain market (again)
The crops are ahead of normal in development, well on the way to an early harvest. Here's veteran grain merchandiser Marlin Clark on the current grain market.
Weather will stop affecting the market now
Marlin Clark offers an update on the grain markets as harvest 2020 approaches.
No news is bad news in the grain markets
Nothing exciting has sparked the markets recently, and that's not good.
MF Global breakdown dominates Chicago grain market talk
MF Global declared bankruptcy Oct. 31, curiously just after an audit that did not discover the discrepancies that existed deep in the bowels of this futures-trading and debt instrument-trading giant.