Corn Export Sales and Shipments
The latest weekly export sales and shipment update showed 2025-2026 marketing year export shipments of U.S. Corn at 3,349 mb (blue column) through Thursday, August 27, a point in the [...]
Soybean Export Sales and Shipments
The latest weekly export sales and shipment update showed 2025-2026 marketing year export shipments of U.S. soybeans at 1,498 mb (blue column) through Thursday, August 27, a point in the [...]
Soybean Meal Export Sales and Shipments
The latest weekly export sales and shipment update showed 2025-2026 marketing year export shipments of U.S. soybean meal at 17,369.71 (1,000 st) (blue column) through Thursday, August 27, a point [...]
Soybean Oil Export Sales and Shipments
The latest weekly export sales and shipment update showed 2025-2026 marketing year export shipments of U.S. soybean oil at 360.3 (1,000 mt) (blue column) through Thursday, August 27, a point [...]
Cotton 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 733.0 (1,000 running bales) (blue column) through Thursday, August 27, a [...]
Sorghum Export Sales and Shipments
The latest weekly export sales and shipment update showed 2025-2026 marketing year export shipments of U.S. sorghum at 200 mb (blue column) through Thursday, August 27, a point in the [...]
Wheat 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 180 mb (blue column) through Thursday, August 27, a point in [...]
Beef Export Sales and Shipments
The latest weekly export sales and shipment update showed 2026 calendar-year export shipments of U.S. beef at 439.8 1,000 MT (blue column) through Thursday, August 27, a point in the [...]
Pork Export Sales and Shipments
The latest weekly export sales and shipment update showed 2026 calendar-year export shipments of U.S. pork at 1,167.6 1,000 MT (blue column) through Thursday, August 27, a point in the [...]
US Drought Monitor
The latest weekly US Drought Monitor update, for the week ending Tuesday, September 1 (slide 1) showed little change from the previous week (slide 2). The latest map continued to [...]
Morning Bracer
Morning Summary: It surely is a sign of the times that the first thing I think about nearly every day is a morning bracer to prepare me for a look [...]
November Soybean Daily
As mentioned in Wednesday's Afternoon Commentary, November soybeans completed a bearish spike reversal on its short-term daily chart. What does this mean for Thursday's session? Probably nothing. After all, algorithms [...]
It Was a Wednesday
Afternoon Summary: On the normal weekly calendar, Wednesday has a number of nicknames including Watson (for the beginning of the new noncommercial positioning week), Wheat (because Wednesday can be a [...]
Export Sales Announcement
USDA announced sales of 202,000 mt of 2026-27 soybeans to China.
It’s a Wednesday
Morning Summary: If I was a newbie in the world of watching markets, a look at the quote screen pre-dawn Wednesday might’ve created a Blink reaction thinking things had changed [...]
Free Fallin’
Afternoon Summary: As I sat down to write Afternoon Commentary this first day of meteorological fall, Tom Petty’s Free Fallin’ came up randomly on my playlist. Perfect timing, as I [...]
December Corn Seasonal Summer Rallies
A friend from south-central Nebraska asked if we have seen a summer rally like what is going with the December 2026 corn futures contract this year. I appreciate the fact [...]
Summer is Over
How is my fall going this first day of meteorological autumn? While I was able to avoid anything and everything pumpkin spiced (as of this writing), my first television appearance [...]
Export Sales Announcement
USDA announced sales of 136,000 mt of 2026-27 soybeans to China.
Monthly Grains
Corn futures spreads: Neutral-Bullish September-December closed August covering a bearish 72% as compared to the end of July 76% and the 2025 edition finishing August 2025 covering 73% inducing the [...]