Farmers Up Winter Wheat Plantings for First Time in 8 Years
Improving corn and soybean prices have gotten much of the market’s attention lately. At the same time, bullish fundamentals have…
Merchandising Grain on the Cash Basis Market During ‘Storage Season’
Though fall row crop harvest and winter wheat planting is generally in the books for 2020, marketing those crops is…
Ag, Biofuel Groups Seek RFS Restoration in the Court
A group of agricultural and ethanol and biodiesel organizations joined forces this week in an effort to restore a half-billion-gallon…
Why Grain Prices are Surging and What It Will Take For The Rally to Last
A shorter U.S. crop than many expected earlier in the year, continued strong export demand and developing weather challenges in…
China Growing Into Major Beef Export Partner
The nation’s U.S. soybean imports have gotten most of the headlines in the agricultural world in the last year or…
Ethanol Exports Slip 12% on COVID-19 Pandemic
Exports of U.S. ethanol account for 60% of the global marketplace, which has seen sharp declines in demand throughout this…
Grain Trade Watching South American Weather, Pre-Thanksgiving Positioning For Market Direction
Demand and growing speculation about the damage the South American crops are enduring from widespread increasing drought conditions have been…
Forecasters Eyeing Jet Stream, Polar Vortex For Moisture, Bitter-cold Temperature Chances
Growing and intensifying drought heading into the winter — normally the wet season in the western U.S. — will require…
La Niña-driven Southern Plains Drought Expected to Persist Through Spring — Climatologist
A La Niña system started developing in the Pacific Ocean a few months ago, and that’s not a good sign…
Export Potential Setting Up an Acreage Battle for 2021
China keeps buying U.S. soybeans and based on expected continued demand as that nation rebuilds its hog herd and rattling…