Tuesday, November 5, 2024

The stock market took another dive, and it took the grains with it.

Watching the grain markets these days is like watching that optimistic kid digging through that pile of manure: There must be a pony in...

There is nothing in the grain commodity markets to indicate a return to what we now know are high prices.

A few weeks ago I said the bottom would be put in this sick market when the trade realized that the crop production estimate...

The soybean harvest is dragging along and corn harvest is having trouble getting fired up. Meanwhile, there is no enthusiasm for the crop in...

When a grain trader talks about harvest pressure, he is referring to the effect on the futures markets on the Chicago Board of Trade...

The market used to be bleeding lower. The bleeding became a massive hemorrhage yesterday, Oct. 6, on the Chicago Board of Trade as the...

Last week in this space we looked at the "outside markets" as an effect on our grain markets. Recently, they have been a dominating...

Based on the fundamentals and the technicals both, we should have been lower Sept. 22. What happened? Outside markets happened, with a vengeance.

The corn downtrend has continued for 11 days. There is a little satisfaction in that, since in my last column I said that...