Seeing Red
Morning Summary: There wasn’t a lot of green in the commodity complex early Friday morning with the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map (slide 2) showing only 2 sectors not donning [...]
Find Your Happy Place
Afternoon Summary: Knowing most of you are in the Grains industry, I have two pieces of advice Thursday afternoon: First, turn off your screens for the day. It won’t do [...]
Wheat Export Sales and Shipments
The latest weekly export sales and shipment update showed 2025-2026 marketing year export shipments of all U.S. Wheat at 855 mb (blue column) through Thursday, May 28, a point in [...]
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 2,464 mb (blue column) through Thursday, May 28, a point in the [...]
Soybeans Export Sales and Shipments
The latest weekly export sales and shipment update showed 2025-2026 marketing year export shipments of U.S. soybeans at 1,307 mb (blue column) through Thursday, May 28, 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 13,102.22 (1,000 st) (blue column) through Thursday, May 28, 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 342.1 (1,000 mt) (blue column) through Thursday, May 28, a point [...]
Cotton Export Sales and Shipments
The latest weekly export sales and shipment update showed 2025-2026 marketing year export shipments of U.S. upland cotton at 8,882.7 (1,000 running bales) (blue column) through Thursday, May 28, 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 165 mb (blue column) through Thursday, May 28, a point in the [...]
Beef Export Sales and Shipments
The latest weekly export sales and shipment update showed 2026 calendar-year export shipments of U.S. beef at 275.8 1,000 MT (blue column) through Thursday, May 28, 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 776.1 1,000 MT (blue column) through Thursday, May 28, a point in the [...]
US Drought Monitor
The latest weekly US Drought Monitor update, for the week ending Tuesday, June 2 (slide 1) showed some change this past week. Readings across the 3-I states (Iowa, Illinois, Indiana) [...]
When Headlines Don’t Happen
Morning Summary: A look at the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map early Thursday morning shows us what happens these days when headlines don’t happen. The commodity complex is about as [...]
Weird Wednesday
Afternoon Summary: You’ve heard of Manic Monday and Freaky Friday. Now let me introduce you to the day that falls in between – Weird Wednesday. Adding to the peculiarity was [...]
Watson, Weather, and What the…
Afternoon Summary: After sitting down to write today’s Afternoon Commentary, I looked for 3 possible reasons for the mixed activity in the commodity complex. For example, after trading lower early, [...]
The Rain in Spain
Morning Summary: The irony of today’s Commentary title (The Rain in Spain) is that Tuesday’s weather shows clear skies across Spain. Why, then, did I choose today’s title? Because of [...]
Soybean Crush: April 2026
The March 2026 Oilseed Crushings report from USDA/NASS was released on Friday, May 1. 218 mb of soybeans were reportedly crushed during April (30 days) as compared to 232 mb [...]