It did not rain on Easter Sunday, thus as weather lore goes, we should not have to worry about seven consecutive rainy Sundays! My family and I made our annual pilgrimage down to northern Illinois for Easter to be with family.  I saw a decent amount of tillage equipment and planters rolling and taking advantage  

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Extreme spring weather is not shaking up the market in a positive way.  With rainfall coming in less than first expected, the market looks for planting to get a good start.  Fieldwork around here has not really started, but south of here has and fertilizer applied. Markets are taking a break on Good Friday holiday  

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Trade optimism and a slow start to planting gave headlines a friendly tone to start the week but a drier Western Corn Belt outlook tempered the anticipation of higher prices.  Monday’s U.S. corn planting was at 3% vs the expected 5% and vs the 5-year average of 5%.  Spring wheat planting was at 2% vs  

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Just another strange week here in the great state of Wisconsin. Here in the central part of the state we have more snow/freezing rain that is not welcome this time of year.  This week in the grain world not much is exciting. The WASDE Report was released leaving prices in approximately the same range we  

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Markets are trading mixed following the release of the USDA S/D report where minor changes were made.  The report was slightly bearish compared with average trade expectations. Ethanol, feed and residual and export forecasts were lowered in the report.  As a result, ending stocks forecast was raised by 200 million bushels.  Global ending stocks were  

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Markets are continuing to slowly climb back from last Friday’s report. This morning’s exports were better than expected for beans and wheat, but disappointing on corn. The USDA announced 72.4 million bushels of bean exports, 25.9 million bushels of wheat, and 21.2 million bushels of corn to be exported. The five-day forecast shows rain for  

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The biggest news in the market today is the March USDA planting intentions and quarterly stocks report that was released last Friday.  The report caught some by surprise with a bearish bias in the numbers,  especially in corn.  Corn closed down 17 ½ cents on the day.  This is the largest single down day since  

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Yesterday saw heavy fund selling that pushed the markets sharply lower with beans leading the way! Corn and wheat slide lower following the beans as the funds baled and went to the short side of the market. The Argentine Peso is at a record low vs. the dollar. The fall in the South American currencies  

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Welcome to planting intentions and quarterly stocks report week!  The market is quite ahead of this so far.  The last two years we have seen a big shift to soybeans from corn.  The market is indicating more corn acres (91 million acres) and less beans (86 million acres).  With the weather, time will tell the  

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This week’s soybean export sales numbers where a disappointment as China bought just 142k tons of old crop and cancelled 65k tons of new crop.  Rabonbank estimates China’s pig herd fell 15% in 2018 and their 2019 pork production could fall 20% and predict China will buy two mmt of U.S. pork in 2019 which  

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