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 1,462.9 1,000 MT (blue column) through Thursday, October 29, a point in the [...]
January Soybeans Daily
The daily chart for January soybeans gives us something to watch Thursday. The overnight session saw Jan27 post a low of $11.9825, taking out Wednesday's mark of $11.9875 The overnight [...]
US Drought Monitor
The latest weekly US Drought Monitor update, for the week ending Tuesday, November 3 (slide 1) showed readings improved a bit over the Northern Plains and Northern Midwest (slide 2). [...]
Blue Bayou
Morning Summary: Wednesday’s post-midterm election theme of “Blue Tsunami”[i] had me thinking all day about the classic Roy Orbison song, and beautifully haunting Linda Ronstadt version, “Blue Bayou”[ii]. What’s a [...]
Four Letter Words
Afternoon Summary: As I watched markets play out Wednesday, the first word that came to mind was a 4-letter word, one that I don’t like to say when discussing markets [...]
Export Sales Announcement
USDA announced sales of 167,000 mt of 2026-27 soybeans to Spain.
A Blue Tsunami
Morning Summary: I turned in early last night, thinking the US mid-term election would take days, if not weeks, to be decided. But I had trouble sleeping, so got up [...]
I Guess He’d Rather Be in Colorado
Afternoon Summary: I debated what title and picture to use for today’s Afternoon Commentary, the choices being “Find a Happy Place” and using one of my pictures from a local [...]
Export Sales Announcement
USDA announced export sales Tuesday morning: 315,000 mt of 2026-27 corn to Mexico 136,000 mt of 2026-27 corn to South Korea 134,000 mt of 2026-27 soybeans to unknown destinations
National Sandwich Day
Morning Summary: A topic that often comes up when visiting with my longtime friend and host of RFD-TV’s Market Day Report Tony St. James is “What Day is Today”. What [...]
Soybean Crush: September 2026
The September 2026 Oilseed Crushings report from USDA/NASS was released on Monday, November 2. 199 mb (5.96 million tons) of soybeans were reportedly crushed during September (30 days) as compared [...]
Reading the Markets
Afternoon Summary: Over the decades, I’ve said countless times that if we want to understand what the market is saying all we have to do is focus on what it [...]
Export Sales Announcement
USDA announced export sales Monday morning: 1,729,740 mt (68.1 mb) of corn to Mexico 1,135,380 mt (44.7 mb) for 2026-27 594,360 mt for 2027-28 132,000 mt of 2026-27 soybeans to [...]
Monthly Summary Table
What stood out to me at the end of October? The consistency across US agriculture markets. Grains: Short across the board. Including December corn and November soybeans as well as [...]
