Some of you may be wondering what has become of my Weekly, then Monthly Columns, as they have become sporadic at best. I've long said writing columns has been one [...]

Darin's Comments: This is one of my favorite pieces I've written over the years, of course with an enormous assist from Edgar Allan Poe. I originally wrote this back in [...]

With the calendar page now turned to September, and the bulk of harvest of 2024 corn and soybean crops drawing near, it’s time for the annual discussion of the Gamblers’ [...]

A number of you have asked about my recent monologue having to do with a conversation I recently had with someone about their 401K and the S&P 500 Index. I [...]

The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris have come to an end, and as of this writing no country in the BRICS[i] alliance has invaded a neighbor, but there is still [...]

Back in my early days as an analyst/commentator, I figured out one did not use the terms “friendly” or “unfriendly” to describe markets, reports, weather forecasts, etc. as it implied [...]

The end of June was rough for corn market bulls. Even though we know the market has been in a long-term downtrend since the end of May 2022, the fact [...]

One of the few memories I have of growing up in south-central Kansas is summer wheat harvest. 50 years ago, it was a big deal in our little town of [...]

As I was working through topics to write about this month I came up with the genius idea for a piece titled, “April Showers Bring…”. It would be about the [...]

(Cue the Huey Lewis and the News song from – gasp! – almost 40 years ago.) Those of you who have been following along know I’ve talked a lot about [...]

I’ve been thinking about this Column for a while. The last few months have seen more folks sign up for our service, with a large percent of them still holding [...]

Here we are on the first day of January 2024, the beginning of a new year. Again, I want to thank all of you for being with us as we [...]

I recently asked the few folks who remember me at DTN if they would send me a piece I wrote many years ago (nearly 14, as it tuns out). My [...]

A friend asked if I would put together a Column taking a look at the various market and economic factors at play as we near the end of 2023. My [...]

As I talked about numerous times during September, all eyes would be on the December 2023 corn futures contract heading into last Friday’s close. As fate would have it, the [...]

As we were driving back from Kansas City Sunday afternoon, we saw some corn being harvested along Interstate 29. As I watched the fields roll by I was reminded of [...]

The last two months have seen the corn market act more like soybeans and wheat than its traditionally stoic self. For a market that prides itself on moving sideways, corn [...]

A good friend read my mind first thing Thursday morning. Before the first cup of coffee was finished, I received a message asking the question that kept me awake as [...]

As I was walking along the figurative path of my Monthly Supply and Demand and Analysis for May, I had to stop and smell some of the flowers. Of the [...]

We’ve turned the calendar page to April, meaning the end of March USDA nonsense is behind us and the grain and oilseed sector can now return to its roots of [...]

Somehow the month of March got away from me. This column was supposed to be written and posted as part of the Monthly Newsletter on March 1, also the first [...]

We have reached the month of February, the shortest month of the year and thankfully so. Why? Because it is also the last month of meteorological winter meaning by the [...]

The usual process I go through when putting together a Weekly Column is to come up with an idea, then do the research (fundamental and technical) to support the thesis. [...]

There are points in time that for the rest of our lives we remember where we were and what we were doing. For me it is watching Richard Nixon’s resignation [...]

As most of you know, I put away my soothsayer hat a number of years ago, meaning I don’t spend a lot of time putting together annual outlooks anymore. It [...]