During a recent appearance on RFD-TV’s Market Day Report, my friend and host of the program Tony St. James said, “Talking about old television shows; Jeannie could blink and make [...]

How is my fall going this first day of meteorological autumn? While I was able to avoid anything and everything pumpkin spiced (as of this writing), my first television appearance [...]

Back in June 1963, United States president John F. Kennedy gave one of the most important speeches of the Cold War. Some might recall this was roughly 2 years after [...]

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 [...]

As part of the annual Barchart Summer Road Show I took part in last week, some of the sales team has a skit promoting the latest tools available titled “The [...]

At the Barchart Summer Road Show event in Shakopee, Minnesota, after the talking had ended and the horse racing began (the event was held at Canterbury Park, appropriately enough) a [...]

This past weekend, the folks running Barchart’s social media posted a recent piece from CNBC.com, written by CJ Haddad titled/summarized as, “Trump Media’s new paid data service goes live, giving [...]

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 [...]

A look at the quote screen Thursday morning and we find the Corn market in the green, most likely on the latest 6-to-10-day forecast, for July 28 to August 1, [...]

As Forrest Gump told us, “Shrimping is tough.” The same could be said for the US cattle/beef industry, particularly after it fell into the crosshairs of the US president late [...]

I’ve been asked about my recent comments regarding John Dickinson. Recall Mr. Dickinson was an American Founding Father from Pennsylvania. As a member of both the First and Second Continental [...]

*I posted this piece to Barchart this past week but thought it would also work for the Weekly Column on our website. I had a conversation with my friend Kyle [...]

It has been a couple months since I last wrote and posted a Weekly Column, making the title “Weekly Column” a misnomer in and of itself. Why the pause in [...]

Many years ago, while I still in the DTN Newsroom, I wrote a weekly On the Market column about what I called the Wider River Theory. This was back when [...]

This past week, I had the opportunity to work with my long-time friend Myra Saefong of MarkeWatch again. We had a lengthy conversation via email spanning many days, as each [...]

As you know, I spent the latter part of last week traveling to and from the Quad Cities area. I had been invited to speak at the Rock Island County [...]

Toward the end of January, I gave a market talk at the annual meeting of a local soybean processing company in Omaha. I filled the hour with talk of the [...]

Friday night into early Saturday morning, as the final hours of the Dog Days of Winter, also known as February, were set to wind down, the US president reportedly cried [...]

I was reminded by my friend Jesse Allen, host of the Agriculture of America talk show, that this week brings the 2026 edition of Commodity Classic, once again being held [...]

This is post number 20,000 to our website. When DTN and I parted ways back in June 2018, and Ben and I made the decision to start our own company, [...]

As I mentioned in Monday’s (February 2, 2026) Morning Commentary, the turn of the calendar page to February marks the beginning of the Dog Days of Winter in North America, [...]

This Weekly Column will be different than most. There won’t be any little puns, or pop culture references, or song lyrics. There is time for having some fun with commentary, [...]

The new year got rolling with a January 3 invasion of Venezuela by the United States. The reasons for the military action have been debated endlessly since, but as I’ve [...]

How is everyone doing with their New Year’s resolutions? If one of yours is the popular “lose weight”, and it includes the idea you will eat more salads and drink [...]

If I had to pick one word to describe 2025, as far as the commodity complex goes, it would be “historic”. In years past, the Softs sector stole the spotlight [...]