Soybean Weekly Export Sales and Shipments
The latest weekly export sales and shipment update showed 2026-2027 marketing year export shipments of U.S. soybeans at 511 mb (blue column) through Thursday, November 05, a point in the [...]
Soybean Meal Weekly Export Sales and Shipments
The latest weekly export sales and shipment update showed 2026-2027 marketing year export shipments of U.S. soybean meal at 1,889.19 (1,000 st) (blue column) through Thursday, November 05, a point [...]
Soybean Oil Weekly Export Sales and Shipments
The latest weekly export sales and shipment update showed 2026-2027 marketing year export shipments of U.S. soybean oil at 10.4 (1,000 mt) (blue column) through Thursday, November 05, a point [...]
Cotton Weekly Export Sales and Shipments
The latest weekly export sales and shipment update showed 2026-2027 marketing year export shipments of U.S. upland cotton at 2,335.5 (1,000 running bales) (blue column) through Thursday, November 05, a [...]
Wheat Weekly Export Sales and Shipments
The latest weekly export sales and shipment update showed 2026-2027 marketing year export shipments of all U.S. Wheat at 295 mb (blue column) through Thursday, November 05, a point in [...]
Beef Weekly Export Sales and Shipments
The latest weekly export sales and shipment update showed 2026 calendar-year export shipments of U.S. beef at 562.0 1,000 MT (blue column) through Thursday, November 05, a point in the [...]
Pork Weekly Export Sales and Shipments
The latest weekly export sales and shipment update showed 2026 calendar-year export shipments of U.S. pork at 1,499.4 1,000 MT (blue column) through Thursday, November 05, a point in the [...]
Cash Corn Question
A friend from central Nebraska called with both a comment and a question. He has heard of producers in his area whose corn production came up short of what was [...]
Export Sales Announcement
The announced business fits with what we saw during the overnight session. USDA announced export sales Friday morning: 303,000 mt of corn to Mexico 272,800 mt for 2026-27 30,480 mt [...]
Producer Price Index: October 2026
The October Producer Price Index (PPI) numbers were released Friday (the 13th) morning. Producer Price Index at 0.3% as compared to the average pre-report guess of 0.4% and the September [...]
Friday the 13th
Morning Summary: Happy Friday the 13th everyone. To some, this is a scary day[i], the time spent avoiding black cats, walking under ladders, and big guys wearing hockey masks and [...]
The Race Is On
Afternoon Summary: As markets round the final turn, heading for the homestretch of the week, the lyrics of the classic “The Race Is On”[i] come to mind: “Now the race [...]
Energies Rally – Kind Of
According to CNBC, "Oil prices jump(ed) after (the US president) says no Iran deal needed: 'We got their Strait'". Let's look at the quote screen: WTI rallied $1.22 off its [...]
Export Sales Announcement
USDA announced sales of 136,000 mt of 2026-27 soybeans to China.
US Drought Monitor
The latest weekly US Drought Monitor update, for the week ending Tuesday, November 10 (slide 1) showed readings improved a little over the Northern Midwest this past week (slide 2). [...]
Another One Bites the Dust
Morning Summary: One look at the front page of financial news Thursday morning (slide 2) and it is easy to see the theme of the day. Reportedly, another billionaire has [...]
Watson Steals the Show
Afternoon Summary: This being a Wednesday, it was the first day of the new noncommercial positioning week[i]. As I ran the traps of markets in the various sectors, the common [...]
Consumer Price Index: October 2026
Somehow, among all the other government numbers released Tuesday, I missed the October Consumer Price Index figures. What did the numbers show for last month? As Chicago Federal Reserve President [...]
Back to Business
Morning Summary: The clock read 4:00 (CT) as I sat down to write Wednesday’s Morning Commentary, meaning it was 11:00 in Paris. On the eleventh day of the eleventh month, [...]
Eleven 11 Eleven
It is the 108th anniversary of eleventh hour (in Paris) of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the moment the guns fell silent as the Great War came to [...]