Tag: corn
The big day is finally here (get your USDA report game...
Today is the day of the landmark USDA Planting Intentions Report. Everyone's waiting for the noon hour release!
Looking and hoping for market change
Maybe this is the week of the big thaw ... we can only hope.
Crop farmers told to question their inputs
With tight margins expected at harvest, farmers should be critical of what they spend to grow this year's crop.
Purdue seeding trial results show more corn plants per acre
To achieve the ‘ideal’ population of 32,000 seeds per acre, farmers should put down 32,500 to 34,300 seeds per acre.
Orville Redenbacher exits Ohio
For the past two years, Geauga County farmer Kevin O’Reilly has turned an often overlooked crop into a healthy profit center. That is about to change as ConAgra Foods moves the second of its two popcorn processing facilities out of Ohio.
Recent grain market mystery solved
When you have the futures market $2 above the cash market, your intuition is that the market is just broken. How ag economists solved the mystery.
News nudges corn and wheat to highs
Speculation about Russian wheat exports seems to be the cause of recent price jumps in the Chicago wheat futures.
Shipping delays pile on more harvesting woes
Shipping grain across the country is proving to be a difficulty for some farmers as trains are not able to haul enough and the barges on the Mississippi River have also been a source of frustration.
USDA reports yield just a murmur on grain markets
With the big grain crops, prices do not have a good reason to improve. There are hard decisions ahead for farmers.
Market monitor: Harvest pressure hurting grain prices
The combination of a big harvest, falling storage space and the export market are impacting the price of corn and soybeans.
