Saturday, November 23, 2024

Everyone expects me to tell them the future of the grain markets, and the future is murky to me.

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 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...