Market Commentary 

What a week for the bean market! On Wednesday, President Trump met with Chinese President Xi and reported that the meeting was successful.

Good afternoon! Hope you’re all staying safe and warm this week. Grain and outside markets have retreated quite a bit today as we head toward month end, but there have been a few notable headlines over the last 24 hours.

Good afternoon. The USDA gave the corn market quite a shock on Monday.

Hopefully everyone is enjoying this warm spell we are having to wrap up the week! We are finally up to date on fundamental export data from the partial government shutdown.

Another quiet week in the grain markets as we near Christmas. There has not been much news to move prices in either direction. It favored being in the red but was overall unchanged this week, except for beans.

Another slow and uneventful week in the grain markets. The trend this week was negative and red, as there are no new stories to boost markets.

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.