Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
Afternoon Summary: As Friday comes to a close, so too does the month of July, meaning two out of the three months of the summer quarter are now complete. What [...]
What Will Friday Bring
Morning Summary: What will today bring? Will it be a typical Frantic Friday as algorithms make sense of the latest headlines and technical statistics, all while trying to project how [...]
Here Comes the Rain Again
Afternoon Summary: Thursday afternoon finds a rain system stretching from northwest North Dakota to north of Omaha, and then again south of the Big O down to southwest Missouri[i]. It’s [...]
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 3,007 mb (blue column) through Thursday, July 23, 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 1,432 mb (blue column) through Thursday, July 23, 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 15,819.71 (1,000 st) (blue column) through Thursday, July 23, 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 353.0 (1,000 mt) (blue column) through Thursday, July 23, 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 10,907.7 (1,000 running bales) (blue column) through Thursday, July 23, 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 189 mb (blue column) through Thursday, July 23, 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 95 mb (blue column) through Thursday, July 23, 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 379.4 1,000 MT (blue column) through Thursday, July 23, 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 1,021.2 1,000 MT (blue column) through Thursday, July 23, a point in the [...]
US Drought Monitor
The latest weekly US Drought Monitor update, for the week ending Tuesday, July 28 (slide 1) showed little change from the previous week (slide 2). However, the Northern Plains (South [...]
More Chaos
Morning Summary: As I ran the traps of the commodity complex early Thursday morning, two things jumped out at me. First, the Financials sector (US Treasury futures) was deep in [...]
Land is a Commodity
I saw an article posted to LinkedIn, the social media site masquerading as a business forum, talking about how farmers across the US are turning down extraordinary monetary offers for [...]
An Andy Williams Wednesday
Afternoon Summary: As Andy Williams once sang, “Where do I begin?” The tap-in putt would be to talk about the Fed leaving rates unchanged, but that was expected and generally [...]
And So It Goes
Morning Summary: As wild as this week has been, it has followed the typical weekly script. The commodity complex got rolling with a Manic Monday as Energies, Grains, and Livestock [...]
As Silly as It Sounds
Afternoon Summary: I know. The idea of something as silly as “Turnaround Tuesday” activity is asinine, and likely enough to have my late friend Gary Wilhelmi spinning in his grave. [...]