My friend Mike Pearson invited me to be the guest on his “Farming in the 605” podcast, sponsored by South Dakota Corn. Late in the conversation, if my memory serves, [...]

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both, and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down as far as I could to [...]

Somehow, the last day of May is upon us. It seems like only yesterday when Justin Timberlake’s singing of “It’s gonna be may (me)” was all over social media. Now, [...]

Following Tuesday’s close in the grain and oilseed complex, a day that saw old-crop July corn fall its daily limit 40 cents before closing 37 cents lower, the question on [...]

The discussion over inflation grew louder last week after the April Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) both came in much higher than expected. I always get [...]

From a fundamental point of view, this coming week is going to be “fun”. Now that May option expiration is out of the way, and the hilarity any option expiration [...]

As hard as it is to believe, we have already passed the midpoint of meteorological spring here in North America. Yet as I type this out, the forecast for Omaha [...]

If you’ve been paying attention to ag media recently, you know talking about futures spreads and forward curves has become “cool”, much more so than it was 18 months ago. [...]

A question that has come up more frequently of late is whether or not I think the commodity sector is in a supercycle. Some of the interest has to do [...]

It’s the last day of February, meaning the last day of meteorological winter. In honor of the day, Major League Baseball has scheduled its first games of Spring Training for [...]

A look at the calendar shows North America has one more week of winter before meteorological spring begins on March 1. A year ago at this time, the world was [...]

I spent this past weekend putting together a market presentation I’ll be giving, in person, in Hutchinson, Minnesota later this week. As I was working, it dawned on me to [...]

“There’s a train a-coming…” One of the hot topics this past week was news that the CME Group had announced its plans to increase “both spot-month and all-months combined speculative [...]

January has come and gone, and what a month it was. History books will forever talk about the attempted overthrow of democracy early in the month, while a mere two [...]

“Now that I have your attention, soybeans could also fall back to less than $10.” Some of you may remember, but that was the opening line to my first weekly [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about Ernest Hemingway lately. Every time I look in the mirror I’m reminded of The Old Man and the Sea. When I watch the news [...]

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 [...]

There will be a lot of negative pieces posted talking about how terrible 2020 was. The problems are well known, with the deaths tied to Covid-19 staggering. But there were [...]