Markets

Plenty of technical selling pressure and position squaring was seen on Friday in the ag markets. Grains in particular were down hard with the most pressure in soybeans and soybean oil. That spilled into corn […]

September contracts of winter wheat and December soybean oil were the leading percentage gainers among Thursday’s higher grain closes. Rain is pretty non-existent in the forecast the next 7-10 days in the US outside of […]

The day one findings of the Wheat Quality Council’s Spring Wheat Tour found current yields for North Dakota to be 29.5 bpa, 32% below the 5-year average. Minneapolis wheat surged on that news and the […]

Tuesday began with a bang with both soybeans and Minneapolis wheat rushing to solid gains on declining crop conditions; November beans were up 30 cents at one point. However, by midmorning much of the strength […]

We saw a lot of profit taking and technical selling on the day Thursday. December corn and November soybeans closed lower Thursday but were well off their lows as it remained difficult to find significant […]

Grains were mixed Wednesday with most losses related to chances for rain in western Canada in the extended forecast. December corn, winter wheat and most other commodities were higher, supported by a dry U.S. forecast […]

One day after grain prices were restrained by heavy outside selling, new-crop contracts of corn and soybeans posted double-digit gains, joined by modest gains in winter wheat. September Dow Jones futures are trading up over […]

After the open on Monday, heavy pressure in the stock market and other outside markets like crude oil put pressure in the ag sector. Corn finished pretty much unchanged in a tug of war between […]

Grains were supported on Wednesday by a hot and dry forecast in the Northwestern Corn Belt for the next 7 to 10 days (once Wednesday’s rain moves out of Iowa, Southern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Plenty […]