Thursday, April 25, 2024

If the harvest is disappointing, we could see a rally into the late harvest. If not, we have not yet seen the low.
barge on the Mississippi River

Marlin Clark weighs in on a couple of transportation issues that have threatened to stall grain movements in the U.S. and impacted grain prices.
White House

Grain prices were lower on the Chicago Board of Trade Monday, Jan. 23, and our new President got the blame.
combining soybeans, farm, USDA, grain markets

USDA announced payments to farmers whose commodity prices have been hurt by trade actions by President Donald Trump against China, and by the Chinese retaliation.
harvest

Harvest thinking is dominating grain markets on the Chicago Board of Trade already. marlin Clark provides his input in this week's grain report.

Last week we looked at charts, trying to find signals of direction. Well, we know more about direction now. Corn prices broke sharply on...
Soybean harvest 2017

Corn, soybean and wheat prices are reacting to harvest progress across the country. Marlin Clark offers insight into the grain markets.
harvesting and pouring corn

In northeast Ohio, farmers are mostly standing on the carpet in front of the Farm Credit officer, trying to get the line of credit renewed, and trying to explain why they are still sitting on most of their corn and beans.
emerging corn

December corn futures and July Chicago wheat futures have made new contract highs.
corn field partially harvested

The U.S. grain market is finding it hard to define what is going on, and that results in nervous traders and a directionless market, says our fearless grain commentator Marlin Clark.