Market Commentary

Daily Comments

Due to travel, there will be no Daily Comments on Wednesday The Monday optimism appears to have quickly waned as grain and soy markets are generally soft overnight. While it may be nothing more than turnaround-Tuesday-type action, I am not counting on it. Corn and wheat have already washed out…

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Daily Comments

With only a day and a part left to complete the first month of 2023, bean traders appear intent on finishing things on an up note.  I have been scratching around to try and find a solid reason for the optimism this morning, and so far, I have uncovered very…

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Weekly Commentary

It is difficult to pick up a business publication without finding at least one, if not several, economists predicting that the U.S. is headed for a recession sometime this year.  I read one recently that expects growth in the first quarter to turn negative, while many seem to think it…

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Daily Comments

After a decidedly dour start to this week, grain and soy markets have recovered quite nicely, and at this point, the group has earned back all of the previous week’s losses and a bit more. If we close right now, for the week, corn would be up 3-cents, Chicago wheat…

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Daily Comments

Weekly export sales for the week ending the 19th of January fell in line with expectations, but we were respectable for the three major commodities.  At 910,400 MT or 35.8 million bushels, corn sales were down 20% from the previous week but were still 46% above the 4-week average.  Not…

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