Markets - General
As more freezing weather blankets parts of the Plains, wheat growers are worried about potential damage to their crop.
Let’s face it, trying to forecast the future just became much, much harder. Yet, taking the long view at agriculture can provide some guidance.
COVID-19 took a big bite out of commodity prices this week, but could that trend continue? Some analysts fear prices will get even worse before things start to turn around.
Today Bayer announced it will close its Creve Coeur, St. Louis site after learning an employee is under investigation for coronavirus infection.
Coronavirus continues to be a black swan hitting the markets, with both the stock market and commodity market getting hit hard on Monday. Analysts warn more downside risk could be ahead.
Grain storage can be a tool, but storing too long can be a major fault in grain marketing. University of Minnesota economist talks about the biggest grain marketing mistakes he sees made by farmers.
The Phase One trade agreement with China comes with a big promise to purchase close to $40 billion worth of U.S. agricultural products over the next two years. Does this mean the trade war is over? Economists weigh in.
As corn exports continue to disappoint, even if USDA lowers yield, analysts say USDA is likely to reduce export forecasts in Friday’s reports.
Price discovery has changed materially. This has given rise to questioning even the CME and the futures industry.
The reports held both good news and bad news, says Jerry Gulke president of the Gulke Group.
“In a report that was supposed to answer all the questions, it gave us a lot more questions than answers,” says Jerry Gulke, president of Gulke Group.
Lance Honig, crops branch chief of USDA National Ag Statistics Service, hosted #statchat on Monday to help clear up some questions.
For the last several months, the grain markets had to digest how an extremely wet spring plays out for prices. But how will the grain markets move with a hot and dry forecast?
The historic corn rally continued to show its head this week. A bullish breakout technically proved the market may not have been in highs just yet.
Grain marketing is a vital component of a profitable farm operation and is one of the top challenges farmers wish they could overcome. That’s according to a new report from FarmLogs.
Corn carryout is higher yet and while domestic soybean ending stocks were lowered, global supplies are still abundant.
An increase in on-farm storage and tight margins create volatility.
USDA looked into its crystal ball this week and released its first round of numbers for many key forecasts for agriculture in 2019 and beyond.
A former grain elevator manager is on the run after allegedly pocketing $2 million from the Ashby Farmers Cooperative Elevator Co. in west-central Minnesota.
“Cautious.” That’s the one word Will Secor, a grain and farm supply economist with CoBank, would use to describe the year ahead for grain elevators.
U.S. corn futures edged higher on Friday, as the grain was poised to post its biggest one-month gain in more than two years on global supply concerns.
Recent cases of embezzlement, fraud and Ponzi schemes occurring with grain buyers serve as reminders of why farmers should exercise due diligence when working with grain buyers.
USDA’s August Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) produced a few surprises, both when it came to possible crop supplies and adjustments to demand.
There were no major surprises in USDA’s latest WASDE report. USDA didn’t adjust U.S. corn or soybean yields in the July report, but cotton abandonment shows the brutal reality of this year’s drought.
Farm Journal’s field agronomist Missy Bauer says small seed size can have a major impact on soybean yield, causing yields to swing 15 to 20 bu. per acre.
Improvements in fertilizer trading may be on the horizon.