Market Monitor: Looking for direction in a snowstorm
When you live in Ashtabula County for a lifetime, you have snowstorm stories. The day I called Deerfield and said I wouldn’t be in...
Happy grain market for the New Year (hint, you might want to sell)
Thank the market for the bounce and get some grain sold.
Discouraged bulls look for direction in grain market
The grain marketing ship is rudderless this month, as fundamental news is mostly absent and meaningless.
We’re entering the hope-and-change grain market
For some soggy Ohio farmers, the rain means no corn harvest progress may be made now until the ground freezes.
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.
The crop harvest that just never ends
Remember when you expected to harvest up to Thanksgiving? Part of the problem with crop progress is perspective. We have gotten used to early planting, fast dry-down, and big planting and harvesting equipment.
Farmers fighting for crops in Ohio
It is no news to anyone reading this that the farmers of Ohio are fighting for their crops and their livelihoods. The hardy farmers of northeast Ohio got parts of two days this weekend to run beans on squishy ground.
Grain markets: The good, the bad, and the ugly
December corn futures have now dropped exactly $2 from the 7.77 Aug. 30 high. The good news is that we may have finally put a bottom in.
Got the rain gauge (and grain market) blues
The rain gauge told the story yesterday. I finally limped out there with my shepherd's crook leaving holes in the ground. (That's another story:...
The sun will come up tomorrow
Channeling Little Orphan Annie and Gone With the Wind to stay positive in this grain market.
