Morning Summary: Pre-dawn Friday finds the end drawing near. What I mean by this is the end of the trading week, trading month, trading quarter in the Grains sector, and [...]

Morning Summary: As I’ve said before in this space, there are mornings when I stare at the blank piece of white electronic typing paper, wondering what I’m going to fill [...]

Morning Summary: Once again, something I wrote led to the market doing its best to prove me wrong. After mentioning in this space Tuesday about how the coffee market how [...]

Morning Summary: Maybe it’s just me, but it seems the commodity complex has a different sector, a new market, take center stage each week. Last week saw the spotlight fall [...]

Morning Summary: Hot coffee. Is there a better way to start a Monday morning than that first cup of joe? Particularly if the dawn’s first light is still hours away? [...]

Morning Summary: There’s something calming, soothing about heading out to the Barn to do chores and watch the sunrise. I say that, but in market terms there is nothing calm [...]

Morning Summary: Yes, we are late in the month of August, meaning the Dog Days of Summer are nearing an end. At this point of the season there isn’t much [...]

Morning Summary: After pouring my initial, increasingly expensive cup of coffee Wednesday morning, I ran the traps of the various sectors of the commodity complex. Markets were quiet, for the [...]

Morning Summary: You’ve likely noticed I occasionally refer to the movie City Slickers, particularly over the past few years when both live and feeder cattle markets have moved into the [...]

Morning Summary: As many of you already knew, but I had to look up, the 2025 edition of the Midwest Crop Tour gets under way Monday. I get more entertainment [...]

Morning Summary: The Grains sector was green again overnight through early Friday morning, not a hugely surprising development I’ll talk about in more detail momentarily. In the meantime, I’ll mention [...]

Morning Summary: After all the excitement the last number of days, markets across the commodity complex seemed to take a breather overnight through early Thursday morning. The US dollar index [...]

Morning Summary: There is an old figure of speech that says, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too”. According to Wikipedia, this is also called an idiomatic proverb, [...]

Morning Summary: As I looked at the quote screen early Tuesday morning, a couple questions came to mind: Question #1: Did Watson wake up and smell the coffee, figuratively speaking? [...]

Morning Summary: The New York Times runs a daily word game called Wordle. The object of the game is to guess the computer generated 5-letter word, that changes each day, [...]

Morning Summary: As I said in Wednesday’s Morning Commentary, this week has been like running in molasses. But here we are, finally reaching Friday morning, and the one thing I [...]

Morning Summary: Though the Grains sector has received most of the attention this week, the more exciting sector has been Livestock. At Wednesday’s close October live cattle were up nearly [...]

Morning Summary: I don’t know about you, but to me this week seems to be running in molasses. Maybe it’s because every day has been the same; Cattle markets screaming [...]

Morning Summary: A quick check of the various sectors in the commodity complex showed it to be a quiet Tuesday morning with a little Turnaround activity thrown in for good [...]

Morning Summary: A check of markets early Monday morning and a couple things stand out to me: First, the US made it through another weekend. That isn’t a given like [...]

Morning Summary: The turn of the calendar page to August means North America has moved into the Dog Days of Summer. Speaking as one with a birthday during August, parties [...]

Morning Summary: Though it is early Thursday morning, the last day of July, as a good friend likes to say, “There is a lot of month left today.” A number [...]

Morning Summary: Heading into the penultimate trading day of July, the stage will be crowded with markets fighting for the spotlight. Most of the attention will be on the financial [...]

Morning Summary: The latest US Federal Open Market Committee meeting gets under way Tuesday, and as it begins the various markets are telling an interesting story. Recall from Monday’s Afternoon [...]

Morning Summary: It’s going to be a busy week. From Sunday night through early Monday morning we saw the Grains sector trade this past weekend’s weather before turning the spotlight [...]