USDA announced sales of 120,000 mt of 2025-2026 corn to unknown destinations.

USDA announced export sales Monday morning: 264,000 mt of 2026-2027 soybeans to unknown destinations 103,000 mt of corn to Japan 40,000 mt for 2025-2026 63,000 mt for 2026-2027

USDA announced sales of 190,000 mt of 2025-2026 soybean cake and meal to the Philippines.

USDA announced sales of 115,000 mt of 2026-2027 corn to Colombia.

USDA announced sales of 136,000 mt of 2026-2027 corn to South Korea.

USDA announced sales of 192,000 mt of soybeans to unknown destinations. 60,000 mt for the 2025-2026 marketing year 132,000 mt for the 2026-2027 marketing year

You can listen to my Tuesday morning Agriculture of America talk show conversation with host Jesse Allen here: (LINK)

As expected, markets reacted to the obvious manipulation with the US president's "announcement" that a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz would completed 'soon'. Any rational human being knows [...]

If you are familiar with what the game of market manipulation has become, you will easily see through the headlines making the rounds Saturday afternoon and evening through Sunday morning. [...]

We are back in the office. As always, I appreciate your patience while we were away. I will get to work on catching up with some of what I missed [...]

Hi everyone. I need to take some personal days, so will be away from my computer and markets until next Tuesday. I apologize, I know how volatile things have become, [...]

Here are the links to Wednesday’s Markets Now discussion with Michelle Rook: Farm Journal YouTube and Farm Journal TV: (LINK) Markets Now Audio Podcast: (LINK) You can also watch a [...]

A couple headlines stood out to me Sunday afternoon and evening. First, from CNBC. com: (The US president) warns Iran to 'get moving' or 'there won't be anything left. Right...Anyway, [...]

USDA announced sales of 155,000 mt of 2025-2026 soybean cake and meal to Italy.

USDA announced sales of 252,000 mt of soybeans to unknown destinations. 120,000 mt for the 2025-2026 marketing year 132,000 mt for the 2026-2027 marketing year

The April Producer Price Index (PPI) numbers came in Wednesday morning: PPI = 1.4% versus the expected 0.5% and the previous 0.7% Core PPI = 0.6% versus the expected 0.3% [...]

Well, it didn't take long for this to turn into a TACO Tuesday. From the Wall Street Journal (courtesy of my friend in the cattle industry: (The US president) Delays [...]

Monday's round of headlines comes from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). My friend in the cattle industry sent me a message that read, "Happy Headlines in Cattle". I was looking [...]

USDA announced export sales Monday morning: 380,000 mt of corn to Mexico 220,000 mt for 2025-2026 160,000 mt for 2026-2027 128,000 mt of 2025-2026 corn to South Korea

Let's do some reverse engineering this evening. The Energies sector is in the green across the board with WTI crude oil up $2.55 (2.7%) Brent crude up $2.60 (2.6%) Diesel [...]

Here are the links to Thursday’s Markets Now discussion with Michelle Rook: Farm Journal YouTube and Farm Journal TV: (LINK) Markets Now Audio Podcast: (LINK)

USDA announced sales of 148,240 mt of corn to unknown destinations. 78,240 mt for the 2025-2026 marketing year 70,000 mt for the 2026-2027 marketing year

As expected, the US Federal Reserve left the Fed fund rate  unchanged, the range to between 3.5% and 3.75%. However, according to a CNBC piece posted by Jeff Cox, the [...]

Well, at least we know the next country the US president will invade - Germany. From CNBC U.S. is 'being humiliated by Iran', says Germany's Merz, as Europe's patience wanes; [...]

As I mentioned this morning, the key Sunday headline had to do with the US envoy not going to a meeting that was never schedule. Early market response is as [...]