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 1,469 mb (blue column) through Thursday, August 13, 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 16,796.79 (1,000 st) (blue column) through Thursday, August 13, 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 356.4 (1,000 mt) (blue column) through Thursday, August 13, 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 362.5 (1,000 running bales) (blue column) through Thursday, August 13, 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 196 mb (blue column) through Thursday, August 13, 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 147 mb (blue column) through Thursday, August 13, 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 416.0 1,000 MT (blue column) through Thursday, August 13, 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 1,107.7 1,000 MT (blue column) through Thursday, August 13, a point in the [...]
US Drought Monitor
The Bottom Line, albeit at the top, is weather doesn't seem to play much of a role in the Grains sector, filled with markets that are weather derivatives, these days. [...]
Thirsty Thursday Dead Ahead
Morning Summary: “(The US president) threatens ‘Economic D-Day’ for Iran and ‘tremendous’ consequences for its backers”, reads the lead headline early Thursday morning. So, I guess the “peace deal” is [...]
Rule No. 6
Afternoon Summary: A friend from central Nebraska called around midday. He was wondering if the rally in the commodity complex was due to the news from the US Treasury this [...]
What Will Watson Do Wednesday?
Morning Summary: Given this week has played out generally according to schedule – starting with a Manic Monday and continuing with a partial Turnaround Tuesday – I was set to [...]
Some Turned, Some Didn’t
Afternoon Summary: If I were to summarize Tuesday’s session for the commodity complex with one phrase it would be, “Some turned, some didn’t”. In the end, there didn’t seem to [...]
No Turnaround…Yet
Morning Summary: Given the normal Manic Monday activity seen yesterday, I kept an eye out for a round of typical Turnaround Tuesday trade in the commodity complex overnight through the [...]
A Manic Monday Indeed
Afternoon Summary: It wasn’t hard to figure out what happened Monday. A quick look at the quote screen showed me soybeans were up 25.0 cents, at a time when rain [...]
Fun With Crop Tours
I’m going to go out on a limb and say most of you have likely heard the annual Midwest Crop Tour is going on this week. Nearly all the industry [...]
More of the Same Monday
Morning Summary: Pour yourself another a cup of coffee (or tea, or whatever helps you get going in the morning) as we embark on another trading week. After watching markets [...]
CFTC Commitments of Traders
Net Positions as of Tuesday, August 11 (Legacy, Futures Only) Corn: Net-long 244,912 contracts (a decrease of 10,156 contracts) HRW Wheat: Net-long 13,214 contracts (a decrease of 4,443 contracts) Soybeans: [...]