December 27, 2018

Good Morning, The markets are trading slightly higher as it tries to recover from yesterday’s selloff. We opened firm coming back from the Christmas Holiday yesterday before a lack of willing buyers due to any export data. With a lack of fundamental inputs, the...

December 24, 2018

Good Morning, Corn and soybeans were each down 3 overnight. I look for light trade and little movement either direction this week as traders enjoy the holiday week. Shortened trading hours this week with the markets closing at 12:05 pm today and closed tomorrow. The...

December 18, 2018

Good Morning, Markets are steady this morning with corn up 1 and soybeans up 5. Lack of any news and holiday season have the markets stagnant for the time being. President Trump announced that a second round of payments would be coming for US farmers for soybeans. The...

December 17, 2018

Good Morning, Grain markets have opened steady this morning with corn down 1 and soybeans up 3. The watch continues for any additional reports of Chinese business. Most traders appeared to be disappointed with last week’s totals but remain optimistic about future...

December 14, 2018

Good Morning, Buy the rumor, sell the fact reaction in the markets yesterday resulted in the soybeans selling off which pulled corn lower. Chinese soybean sales numbers that were not even close to the 5 to 8 MMT rumors that came from last week’s meeting had traders in...

December 13, 2018

Good Morning, Corn is currently even, and soybeans down eleven. Trade saw China purchase 500,000 tonnes of soybeans, the first since the G20 Summit. This is encouraging progress, though many traders were expecting a number ten times higher. US House and Senate passed...