Winter blues with Sgt. Schultz grain market
The basic problem with writing a grain marketing column for (gulp) 22 years is that readers start to assume the writer knows something. The...
Few clues in the grain trading range
We seem to be locked into trading ranges on the Chicago Board of Trade. In absence of news, the market cycles higher and lower,...
Volatility continues in grain markets
If there is one thing to talk about in the grain markets, it is volatility. Grains have traded over wide ranges in short periods...
The grain market’s new news is bad news
Prices crashed and burned Monday, and mostly are showing follow-through Tuesday. This is the biggest correction in a long time, and it is unwanted by anyone trying to buy grain or anyone trying to sell grain.
Predicting the grain market is like checking the chicken entrails
Everyone expects me to tell them the future of the grain markets, and the future is murky to me.
I have more grain market questions than answers
So, it is a typical Tuesday morning. Here at 9 a.m., I have made the fresh-ground one-third real Colombian Supreme and two-thirds decaf hazelnut...
The perils of grain market prognostication
The stock market took another dive, and it took the grains with it.
Grain markets: Looking for Mr. Goodtrend
Watching the grain markets these days is like watching that optimistic kid digging through that pile of manure: There must be a pony in...
Report bounce holds grain commodities market higher
There is nothing in the grain commodity markets to indicate a return to what we now know are high prices.
Mark your calendars: The low is in
A few weeks ago I said the bottom would be put in this sick market when the trade realized that the crop production estimate...
