This week finds members of US agriculture gathering at the 2025 edition of Commodity Classic in Denver, Colorado. Of all the classics I had the opportunity to attend, and speak [...]

Some of you have been with me long enough to remember my early days at DTN. The company was on its way to the top of the ag media industry [...]

We’ve reached the point in our discussion of technical analysis where we have to figure out what clues Watson – my name for the algorithm-driven investment industry as a whole [...]

I know I mentioned this follow-up piece on technical analysis would be about the Italian mathematician Fibonacci, but I’m going to leave him in the bullpen for now. After all, [...]

Last Friday, I had the opportunity to be the guest on Barchart’s Market on Close program, hosted by the company’s Senior Market Strategist John Rowland[i]. I’ve had a few conversations [...]

As many of you know, I grew up on a small farm in south-central/southwest Kansas, the description depending on if where the person I’m talking to is from. Most Kansans [...]

After spending the last 3 months talking about everything I don’t like, I wanted to close out January by talking about some of my favorite things. Not all of these [...]

As you know, I took a few days off early last week to speak at the 2025 Water Street Solution’s EDGE Conference in Clearwater, Florida. Let me begin by saying [...]

Later today, January 10, 2025, USDA will release its annual data dump that includes monthly grain supply and demand guesses, annual crop production (the “final” numbers until changed again), quarterly [...]

In a previous life, I would spend weeks putting together an industry outlook for the coming year, to be presented at the DTN Ag Summit in early December. My standard [...]

This is always a tough time of year, even for those of us who root for the Grinch’s heart to not grow three sizes and Scrooge to not be spooked [...]

Anyone who has seen the classic holiday cartoon “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is familiar with the scene when Linus takes the podium, says “Lights please”, and proceeds to tell the [...]

I remember when I first got into the business of watching commodity markets back in the late 1980’s, the short-term Wild West mentality of the industry at the time spilled [...]

My friend Matthew Weaver, a reporter for Capital Press out of Spokane, Washington, called me Thursday afternoon. I know when the rest of the world starts to get interested in [...]

Here we are on December 1, 2024, meaning children all over the world will start counting down the days until Christmas, or whatever holiday they celebrate during December. I’ve long [...]

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 [...]