Futures vs. cash prices: who wins war?
Marlin Clark offers insight into the conflicted grain futures markets.
Heat helps corn, but Ohio still last in crop conditions
For planting and growth progress, Ohio has been the worst state most of the spring, passed only occasionally by Indiana. That greenhouse weather the weekend of July 20 didn't tip the market one way or the other though.
Conflicting news, volatile market
Market observers and U.S. Department of Agriculture specialists continue to have different ideas about the size of this year’s corn and soybean crops. USDA came out with its grain stocks report last week, which included current estimates of the crop.
‘Fake news’? Grain traders decry USDA report
To say the numbers released by the National Agricultural Statistics Service are incredible is an understatement. To say they are being met with disbelief is universal. The grain market will be shaken for much of the summer.
Clark: USDA report flawed, tanks corn rally
The mentality of the paper traders is that “rain makes grain.” The reality on the farm is that rain makes mud balls and little yellow corn plants. Experts were left scratching their heads over the numbers in the June 28 USDA corn and soybean planting report, and the market's volatility echoed that confusion.
Grain futures markets rally after losses
Grain markets rallied, in reaction to USDA June 24 reports, which detailed continued incomplete planting and dreadful crop conditions.
Struggling to explain lower grain prices
Crops are in bad shape in the Midwest, and the grain market is trying to decide just how bad. Columnist Marlin Clark shares some insight.
Poor planting still plagues markets
Marlin Clark shares his insights and comments on the state of the grain markets this week.
Good weather has (some) farmers smiling again
Large areas of the Midwest still have very little planting done. Where it is good, it is very good, but where it is bad, it is awful.
Slow planting progress dominates grain markets
The reality of really delayed corn planting is that acres will be reduced by either prevented planting for a switch to soybeans.
