Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Last week we looked at charts, trying to find signals of direction. Well, we know more about direction now. Corn prices broke sharply on...

It is hard to get a handle on where markets are going these days. The easiest method, with the least recriminations when you are...

When prices go up and down, sometimes without reason, we call it "volatile." When we can explain it, we describe cycles and retracements and...

USDA released the Sunday night Crop Progress Report Monday after the close, and it was not pretty. Harvest still drags on, and rain coming...

December corn futures gained 9 cents in the last five minutes of trade Monday. Traders seemed to be reacting to fears of lack of...

There has been a lot of grain market volatility to confuse things. One day, we were up 4 cents and the next down 4 cents. The optimist says we are going higher, the pessimist says we are going lower, and the realist says the market did nothing for those two days.

I have had bird feeders close to the house for 35 years. The bear tore them down a couple of times a few years...

Two old axioms of the grain trade cropped up in conversations last week. One is that a big crop keeps getting bigger. The other...

We can't go back to the markets of 2008.

Many questions remain as we approach the end of the crop year. Not the least of these is: What size crop do we have?