Commentary

Daily Comments

Nothing like a surprise drop in the crop ratings to get the ol’ bull juices flowing.  According to Uncle Sam, corn conditions slid 3% last week to 58% good/excellent, which is now 5% lower than it was a year ago at this time.  90% of the crop is silking, 45%…

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During the overnight trade, grain and soy markets were struggling, but since returning from the morning break, things have perked up a bit once again. Outside of the fact that we have witnessed decent rainfall across the upper Midwest over the weekend and into this morning, most of the news…

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Weekly Commentary

AUGUST 5, 2022 Isn’t it just like the British to try and one-up us?  We all know that rock-n-roll was created in the United States, but before you know it, they were sending us bands with names like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who to try and think…

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Grain and soy markets all slipped down to test out critical levels of support this past week, and thus far, at least, it would appear the ramparts have held.  Be that as it may, at present, we are still lower for the week and remain contained within the same parameters…

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Pretty routine numbers in the weekly export sales report, which will almost certainly do little to prop up the sagging spirits of market bulls.  For the week ending the 28th, we sold 249,900 MT or 9.2 million bushels of wheat.  This was 39% below the previous week and 55% under…

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