In the latest round of Weekly Analysis: Wheat, I talked about how the new-crop July HRW contract could be nearing an end to its secondary (intermediate-term) downtrend. At the close [...]

As discussed in Weekly Analysis: Grain, the March 2027 Corn futures contract completed a bullish key reversal last week, confirming a move to a new secondary (intermediate-term) uptrend. Fundamentally, the [...]

Week 11 of the 26-week (6-month) tracking period for the 2027 edition of the November soybean/December corn futures spread is in the books. Those of you who have been with [...]

Week 10 of the 26-week (6-month) tracking period for the 2027 edition of the November soybean/December corn futures spread is in the books. Those of you who have been with [...]

Week 9 of the 26-week (6-month) tracking period for the 2027 edition of the November soybean/December corn futures spread is in the books. Those of you who have been with [...]

Based on seasonal tendencies, the diesel fuel market looks to get even more interesting over the coming weeks. The spot-month futures contract tends to post a high weekly close the [...]

As mentioned in Weekly Analysis, December cotton tends to move into a seasonal uptrend in mid to late October. The 5-year index (red line) shows a low weekly close the [...]

Week 8 of the 26-week (6-month) tracking period for the 2027 edition of the November soybean/December corn futures spread is in the books. Those of you who have been with [...]

Week 7 of the 26-week (6-month) tracking period for the 2027 edition of the November soybean/December corn futures spread is in the books. Those of you who have been with [...]

The Soybean Meal market started its 2026-27 marketing year when the calendar page turned from September to October. As we see with its seasonal indexes, the first half of the [...]

The December 2026 Cotton contract continues to follow its seasonal tendencies relatively well. This sets the stage for what could be an interesting next couple weeks. Let's take a look [...]

Week 6 of the 26-week (6-month) tracking period for the 2027 edition of the November soybean/December corn futures spread is in the books. Those of you who have been with [...]

Week 5 of the 26-week (6-month) tracking period for the 2027 edition of the November soybean/December corn futures spread is in the books. Those of you who have been with [...]

I mentioned the seasonal pattern for the National Corn Index in the latest Weekly Analysis: Cash Corn. Let's go into more detail about what we've seen and what it might [...]

Week 4 of the 26-week (6-month) tracking period for the 2027 edition of the November soybean/December corn futures spread is in the books. Those of you who have been with [...]

Week 3 of the 6-month tracking period for the 2027 edition of the November soybean/December corn futures spread has come to a close. Those of you who have been with [...]

Week 2 of the 6-month tracking period for the 2027 edition of the November soybean/December corn futures spread has come to a close. Those of you who have been with [...]

The 6-month tracking period for the 2027 edition of the November soybean/December corn futures spread is under way. Those of you who have been with me a while will recall [...]

A friend from south-central Nebraska asked if we have seen a summer rally like what is going with the December 2026 corn futures contract this year. I appreciate the fact [...]

The 6-month tracking period for the 2027 edition of the November soybean/December corn futures spread starts next week, the first weekly close of September. If what we've seen this summer [...]

As mentioned in Weekly Analysis: HRW Wheat, the December contract is in a strong contra-seasonal uptrend, extending its move to a high weekly close of $7.6775 last Friday. Seasonally Dec [...]

One of the headlines early Thursday morning mentioned the US president was unhappy with how slowly gas prices have been in coming down. (A side note: Does this sound familiar [...]

HRW Futures Seasonal Analysis (Nearby Futures): Bearish (slide 1, from DNAI Analysis: Dashboard) National HRW Index (slide 2) The Index tends to post a high weekly close the second week [...]

The National Corn Index (slide 1) tends to post a high weekly close the second week of May (last week). This is followed by a downtrend through the last week [...]

The National Soybean Index tends to post a high weekly close the first week May before moving sideways through the third weekly close of May (next week), then trending down [...]