Below are the TOP ARTICLES about grain markets for this week:

Providing you a one-stop-shop for the top grain market news. Catch-up with what's going on in grain markets...

Here is the corn activity charted for this past week:

Here is the soybean activity charted for this past week, looks like beans are still trading in a channel:

Market chatter - daily closing comments:

• Corn, Soybeans Close Higher Friday
  • CME Group's corn and soybean markets ended higher.
    At the close, the March corn futures settled 7 cents higher at $3.87 per bushel.
    March soybean futures finished 3/4 of a cent higher at $9.91 3/4.
• Grain Market Chatter Closing Comments 01/14/2015
  • If we are looking for a villain to blame for today’s lower corn price I would like to nominate Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.  The thought of oil prices falling and Saudi Arabia continuing to pump oil coupled with today’s announcement that ethanol stocks were up 7.34% over last week and a whopping 25.82% over last year conjured up visions of slowing demand.
• Grain Market Chatter Closing Comments 01/12/2015
  • The bulls had been hoping that today would show a reduction in corn acres and while we saw a reduction of 300,000 planted acres the harvested acres were left unchanged and that was disappointing.

Grain News:

• Syngenta Faces Lawsuit Over US Corn Contamination
  • Syngenta AG (SYT - Analyst Report) faces lawsuit from legal firm Scott+Scott LLP on grounds of commercializing its genetically tailored corn trait MIR162.
• Corn's Many Talents
  • All The Products Made From Corn Make Up A Very Long And Important List
• Cheap Oil Pressures Ethanol
  • Consumers and many economists welcome cheap oil and gasoline. But if you’ve had the feeling that all of this isn’t good for agriculture, you may be right.
• Bright forecast: Food price indexes look good for 2015
  • Food pricing, specifically commodity price, greatly affects our food cost
• Argentina's 'Soy King' abdicates in favor of biotech
  • Los Grobo has slashed its farm area under management to 50,000 hectares (123,553 acres) from 120,000 hectares three years ago.
• South America’s share of the global soybean market will shrink, consultant says
  • arket analyst Carlos Cogo revealed to AgroSouth News today his own estimates for the South American soybean crop. According to his consultancy forecast, Brazil would have an output of 95.9 million tons, Argentina would produce 55 million tons of the oilseed, Paraguay would harvest 10.4 million tons, 3.6 million tons from Uruguay and 2.6 million tons coming from Bolivia.
• 2015 Land values
  • Price softening is happening, but at different rates depending on the region, prices for major commodities in that region, and quality of the land.
• USDA reports sink markets, questions linger
  • USDA's big January reports are history. The data didn't answer all the market's questions, but any doubts may not matter much in the face of huge supplies and seasonal trends that often turn bearish into February.
• Has Storing Corn And Soybeans Worked?
  • If you have read my commentaries over the past three to four months, you know I have been attempting to impress upon farmers not to store. So out of curiosity I looked back at the prices at harvest to see if storing has been working.
• Russia’s domestic wheat prices decline due to export curbs
  • Russia's domestic wheat prices have declined since the start of the year as the government has curbed exports with informal limits ahead of the introduction of an official export tax, analysts said on Monday.

Marketing/Management Strategies:

• Using Put and Call Strategies to Hedge Grain Markets (Video)
  • a video blog showing how to use and valuate put and call options strategies for grain hedging
• Using Futures Options In Grain Marketing
  • I just sold my grain and then the market went up! What are Futures Options and how can I use them?
• How to Determine if Commodity Prices are too Low to Market Grain
  • #1 Rule of Marketing: Don't sell below the cost of production!

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