Priceless advice for cheap prices
Grain prices drop even lower, but Aug. 12 crop production report will help tell us where we're at.
Grain markets and the Monday morning upchuck blues
Grain producers everywhere are saying, ‘Please, Lord, give me another rally; I will know what to do this time!’
Prices moderate on better weather: Future prices are taking wild ride due to crop...
It is hard to be a poor-producing state in a good year.
Markets struggling to hold gains
Even as producers are digging in their marketing heels, the market is actually giving back some of the gains we have seen over the last month and a half.
Market takes breather after move up
The rainy weather that has plagued farmers since the middle of May took a breather the last few days. Three or four days of sunshine and warm — but not hot — weather has perked up some corn and soybean fields.
Crops are getting ugly out there
Ohio’s corn condition declined 19 percent for the second week in a row. Our fearless grain commentator, Marlin Clark, can't remember ever seeing that before.
Raw weather starting to move prices
Heavy rains are having an impact on the grain markets.
Grain markets: It looked good there for a while
Now is a time for hoping, and for looking at grain marketing option strategies. We can’t afford these corn and soybean prices long-term, and we have been too good at production for good prices.
Grain marketing: Planting Progress not dead
USDA's June 8 Planting Progress report says soybean planting still lags history. This has some traders saying that all the bean acres will never be planted.
Grain markets: Rain makes grain, or so we hope
The mentality of the grain traders seems to be that we are going to have huge crops at cheap prices. This will be another marketing season for “As the Stomach Turns,” says grain merchandiser Marlin Clark.
