Market Commentary 

Good afternoon. We are marching right into the holiday season, and this is typically one of the quieter seasons for the grain markets. Harvest is in the rear-view mirror, and for the most part, this year is no different.

Grain markets drifted lower into the end of the week, with corn and wheat mostly weaker-toned bystanders following beans down. Soybeans took the brunt of the selling as funds locked in profits.

Grain markets got a reality check today, pulling back hard after stacking on a little too much premium the last few weeks and hitting key resistance levels. With the government finally reopening, we were met with a long-overdue WASDE and a flash-sale data dump that quickly took s...

The US and China finally agreed on a trade deal. The deal included Chinese purchases of US soybeans, which is what the market has been anticipating all week.

Another week has gone by with little progress on the government shutdown, and limited new developments on the China trade front. 

Good afternoon. Here we are at the end of September, and another month has absolutely flown by us. We got some much-needed rain this week, anywhere from 1.5” up to 4” in some areas.

The markets started the morning in the green after Ag Secretary, Brooke Rollins, announced Taiwan’s commitment to purchase $10 billion in U.S. ag products over the next four years, including soybeans, corn, wheat, and beef.

Good afternoon. Hope you all are ready for another run of temperatures in the 90s, it sounds like it is coming our way.

As I have written over the years, Labor Day is complete, and we are now looking harvest right in the face.

Another month has flown by! Crops are looking really good in the area. Anticipated record corn yields across the U.S. Corn Belt. This is both positive and negative.