I had a question come in about new-crop 2020 soybeans, but instead of using the November contract my friend uses the January for pricing. Recall from this past weekend's Weekly [...]

Some of the side roads I get on while doing Weekly Analysis is updating seasonal and price distribution studies for the various markets. This morning, as I was working on [...]

Early Thursday morning saw the more active old-crop May soybean contract fall as much as 13 cents before abruptly bouncing again. While we don't know why the market won't go [...]

An early morning phone call Wednesday was centered on the question of, "Should I sell some of my 2019 corn despite the recent sell-off?" Usually, I don't like to sell [...]

I just updated Seasonal Analysis with a look at how the November 2020 contract continues to follow the path laid out by the 2019 contract. A year ago we saw [...]

I had a request come in for a look at this price distribution study for April lean hogs. The April contract has recently taken over the role of heaviest traded [...]

The distillates market continues to melt down, with the spot-month contract hitting a low near $1.66 Monday morning before bouncing back to about $1.68. This puts the spot-month contract in [...]

November soybean contracts, both the 2020 (solid red column) and 2021 (red striped column), remain stuck in the middle third of the price distribution range (weekly close only) back through [...]

The extraordinary contra-seasonal rally posted by the July Kansas City (HRW) contract since last September (for more information, see Wednesday's post in Seasonal Analysis), has take the contract to a [...]

This is the first time I've posted the price distribution chart for new-crop November canola on this website, and the first thing that jumps out at me is the slightly [...]

Good morning everyone. Not that the over-hyped events of USDA's January reports have come and gone, it's time to get back to the work of using markets to our best [...]

Last week's rally by the 2020 July Kansas City (HRW) wheat contract saw it post a high of $4.96 1/2 before closing at $4.95 1/2 (red column). This contra-seasonal rally [...]

Recall from Tuesday's discussion of November soybeans' price distribution chart that a suggestion was made to post December corn as well. As always, I appreciate the questions and suggestions. As [...]

I had a request come in to update my new-crop November soybean and December corn price distribution charts. I quickly ran the traps, and it has indeed been awhile since [...]

As discussed in Weekly Analysis today (Sunday, December 15) the cmdty National Corn Price Index (NCPI, weighted national cash average) was calculated last Friday near $3.65 (green column). This put [...]

Some of you may have found your way here from Tuesday's Chart of the Day "Cash Soybeans: To Sell or Not to Sell...", analysis that included a reference to the [...]

Let me start this by saying once again, I appreciate all the questions you folks send in. It let's me know what you are interested in, and on my part, [...]

The corn market continues to intrigue, with the latest development two consecutive days of USDA announcing export sales of 2019-2020 supplies to unknown destinations. All this while the cmdty National [...]

As I mentioned in Thursday's Afternoon Commentary, the rally in soybean futures to a higher daily close could've been tied to the recent sell-off in the market in general, the [...]

The cmdty National Corn Price Index (NCPI, weighted national average) continues to sit above the clouds, with last Friday's calculation of $3.74 (green column) keeping the cash market in the [...]

A customer called me last night, and we talked about accumulator contracts. Looking ahead to the 2020 crop, a buyer had contacted him about getting some corn locked in, or [...]

With the November 2019 futures contract moving into delivery this week, it's time to turn more attention to the new-crop 2020 contract. As I mentioned in this past weekend's Weekly [...]

As I discussed in Weekly Analysis of Wheat this past weekend, the new-crop July 2020 Kansas City contract remains in a secondary (intermediate term) uptrend with an initial upside target [...]

As I mentioned in Thursday's Chart of the Day, I'm looking at a number of March corn studies Thursday following a Wednesday afternoon conversation with a customer curious about hedge [...]

Those of you following with the Theoretical Positions in my Weekly Analysis updates will recall that earlier this week (Monday, October 14), the cash corn position was updated with a [...]