Marketing News Archive
Crop Concerns, Strong Demand Support Corn, Soybean Prices
Oct 13, 2009, Source: University of Illinois
On-going crop concerns could add to recent price strength in both corn and soybeans, and higher prices should probably move pricing strategies to less storage and more harvesttime pricing, according to University of Illinois Economist Darrel Good. December 2009 corn futures have increased by about 65˘/bu. from the early September low. November 2009 soybean futures ...
Corn and soybean export activity is encouraging
Oct 6, 2009, Source: University of Illinois
Corn exports will rebound sharply during the current marketing year, and soybean exports are expected to remain at the record level of the 2008-09 marketing year, according to new USDA projections. “Corn exports during the 2009-10 marketing year are projected at 2.2 billion bushels, 237 million below the record...
Taiwanese Delegation Visits Iowa, Signs Agreement To Purchase Soybeans
Oct 1, 2009, Source: Iowa Soybean Association
The Iowa Soybean Association (ISA) hosted members of a Taiwan Agricultural Trade Goodwill Mission visiting Iowa to see the grain crop about to be harvested and to sign letters of intent for the purchase of soy and corn products...
CFTC Removes Speculative Position Loophole
Aug 24, 2009, By Elton Robinson, Farm Press
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has removed a provision allowing certain speculators to exceed federal speculative position limits on agricultural commodities...
NCGA’s Online Learning Center Helps Growers Succeed
Jul 22, 2009, Source: National Corn Growers Association
The Online Learning Center at the National Corn Growers Association Web site provides corn farmers a growing array of tools to help them succeed in what they do. “Just as our mission is to create and expand opportunities for corn growers, a large part of what we do is aimed at helping them be better ...
Looking Ahead To 2010 And Pricing Corn
Jun 22, 2009, By Ed Usset
If I have a handle on rent and fertilizer prices, I have a pretty good handle on my 2010 production costs. I used the FINBIN data base (the most important and underutilized tool available to farmers) to estimate production costs for corn in southern Minnesota. Assuming four-year average yields of 175 bu./acre, I estimate that I can produce a bushel of corn for $3.60-3.70. This figure assumes a direct government payment of about $20/acre, and includes a labor...
Despite Economic Slowdown, Higher Commodity Prices Projected Long Term
Mar 17, 2009, Source: Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute
After dramatic increases in the prices of most commodities in the last three years, prices will retreat in 2009-2010...
Market Reaction To USDA S&D Report
Mar 17, 2009, By Larry Stalcup
Wheat prices didn’t react as negatively to Friday’s USDA Supply and Demand Report as some expected, even though it showed wheat stocks higher at 712 million bushels...
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May 16, 2008, by Larry G. Stalcup
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Corn Planting Tops Halfway Point
May 13, 2008, By Richard Brock
U.S. corn planting surpassed the halfway market last week as drier weather conditions allowed strong planting progress across most of the main Corn Belt, but cool weather limited crop emergence...
Late-Planted Corn
May 13, 2008, University of Illinois
Corn is responsible for most of the uncertainty in the market, and much of that is associated with the U.S. situation, said a University of Illinois Extension marketing specialist...
Three Pricing Alternatives For Farmers
Apr 22, 2008, Source: Purdue University
Grain buyers and elevators, like producers, can’t afford to take all the risk and some have stopped offering cash-forward contracts to price new-crop corn, soybeans and wheat...
March 31 Crop Report
Apr 1, 2008, By Kent Thiesse
On March 31, 2008, USDA released its Prospective Plantings and Quarterly Grain Stocks reports. This was one of the most anticipated USDA reports ever, due to the strong grain prices in recent months...
Grain Marketing Book
Oct 1, 2007
Grain Marketing is Simple (it's just not easy), is a new book written by Edward Usset, Grain Marketing Specialist, University of Minnesota Center for...
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