Friday, April 25, 2025
Grain bins

A new year is upon us, but we're not seeing much new in the markets yet.
planting wheat

Problems in Kansas planting their hard red winter wheat is supporting both the Kansas City and Chicago wheat markets.

The grain marketing ship is rudderless this month, as fundamental news is mostly absent and meaningless.
soybean field

There is an old saying that no news is good news. That is never true in the grain markets where no news is hard to trade. 
grain dump

Conclusions and directions are hard to wrest out of this market.
combining soybeans, farm, USDA, grain markets

USDA says soybean harvest is done. Not in Ohio. And grain prices aren't moving, says grain merchandiser Marlin Clark, who adds we are seeing two huge crops in a row, and the market does not care if farmers sell or not.
Money markets graphic

The grain markets are up, at least for now.

As corn prices have gone down, it has felt at times like we have left the slide completely and will fall to our financial deaths.
delayed planting, corn,

The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports came and went March 31, and the market seemed to find them easy to digest, according to analyst Marlin Clark.

After the June 30 USDA acreage and stocks reports, we are looking at the worst one-day trading in years, and the market is struggling to decide what low prices really are.