Market Commentary 

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.

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.