Tag: grain markets
Questionable government numbers, incredibly bad grain markets, too
Marlin Clark sheds some light on the USDA's most recent forecasts for this year's harvest yields. Will it be better or worse than expected?
Trade meltdown washes away price support
Marlin Clark provides a weekly breakdown of corn and soybean prices and offers insight on how trade negotiations with China are impacting them.
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.
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.
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.
Weather, China, carryout = grim grain markets
The reality in today's grim grain markets is that the bad weather is not even in the USDA reports yet.
