Monday, April 13, 2026

Corn, beans and wheat have made new recent highs on the Chicago Board of Trade this week, but there is no surprise. Price discovery...
sweet corn

Marlin Clark analyses the most recent trends in the grain markets, delivering this week's grain report.
Ohio corn

Crops are looking good, for the most part, but the market price definitely is not.
New Holland corn combine

Election news continues to dominate everything, including the grain markets.
tillage

Except for four days of respite, grain markets have been lower almost every day since the March 31 USDA Planting Intentions Report. Ohio farmers, itching to get in wet/cold fields, can only watch prices fall.
corn

Following weeks of lower prices, Marlin Clark has good news to report about the corn, soybean and wheat markets, as prices rally on unexpected supplies.
wheat field

Holiday traders don't make big price changes. Marlin Clark weighs in on the small price swings in the grain markets over the last couple weeks.

When grain markets don't seem to matter: At the heart of it, we remain under attack because we are Americans.
A combine harvesting corn.

Harvest pressure and growing sentiment that the U.S. corn and soybean crops are better than thought all summer are stressing prices right now. 

The casual view from the windshield is of good crops. The reality is that we are very late, however, and that exposes us to less yield and fears of maturity. A frost scare the end of September would change things a lot.