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:
Market chatter - daily closing comments:
- Grain Market Chatter Closing Comments 01/08/2015
- Weekly export sales this morning came out at 15.3 million bushels
- Agribusiness Report January 8
- Following a plunge in crop prices with this year’s record corn and soybean harvests, crop and livestock producers are still optimistic
- Grain Market Chatter Closing Comments 01/07/2015
- After six weeks of grinding over 100 million bushels a week for ethanol production we saw the weekly grind drop to 99.645 million bushels
- Grain Market Chatter Closing Comments 01/06/2015
- We had a good old fashioned weather market today
- Grain Market Chatter Closing Comments 01/05/2015
- The fund giveth and the fund taketh away. Last week we saw the funds sell 17,000 contracts of corn and today they reversed course and were buyers of 10,000 contracts for the session
Grain News:
- Will Farmers Plant More Soybeans in 2015
- Record crops and low prices have farmers embracing change in 2015, with acreage shifts continuing to move fields from corn to soybeans
- Thoughts on Monday's USDA Data Dump
- I think the market is extremely uncertain about a variety of balance sheet items (i.e. final yield, harvested acres, feed usage, exports, etc...) and may see a large knee-jerk reaction off the release of the USDA's estimates
- US Agricultural Trade to Moderate Somewhat in 2015
- USDA forecasts exports will decline about 5 percent this year from the record $152.5 billion in 2014
- Russian action to buoy grain prices
- Wheat futures climbed more than 20 percent in fall — from less than $5 per bushel to more than $6 per bu. in Chicago — partly because traders expected Russia to curb grain exports
- Will big data day send grain prices soaring again?
- It will bring round again the slew of crop reports which last year, converted a grain price rout into a rally, catching a swathe of funds off guard and, ultimately, encouraging the hefty sowings which have been reflected in bumper world harvests
- Expectations mixed for future corn prices
- Most farmers need a bushel of corn to sell for $4.25 to break even
- Projected Crop Budgets Look Bleak for 2015
- Many projected crop budgets in the state show a negative return to labor and management for 2015
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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