Author: Kelley Fornoff

By: Dan Hueber – Better than anticipated export sales helped breathe a little oxygen in the lungs of the corn and bean markets that were beginning to gasp for air yesterday.  Barring some type of collapse later today, we are now positioned to close the grains higher for a second…

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By: Dan Hueber – While I thought news was difficult to come by yesterday morning, little did I realize that was just a primer for this morning.  Yes, export sales will be released in a couple of hours, but I will be traveling this morning so will not be around…

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By: Kelley Herwig (Fornoff) A report from the “South China Morning Post” that China was ready to “sweeten” the trade deal with the US and is expected to agree to buy more US ag products before meetings next month sparked some short covering in the ag markets today. The news…

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By: Kelley Herwig (Fornoff) – Soybeans were down rather hard today while corn managed to close slightly higher. Estimates that South America’s soybean crop is larger than last year didn’t help the market and news that Chinese officials are planning to come to Washington early next month didn’t offer any…

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By: Dan Hueber – I have lost track of which round this is, but according to both U.S. and Chinese sources, there will a resumption of trade talks between the two nations sometime in early October.  Granted, this will be a month later than rumored initially and will be the…

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