Marketing News Archive
Looking Ahead To 2010 And Pricing Corn
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
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
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...
Improve Your Marketing Skills With Marketmaxx
by Larry G. Stalcup
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Corn Planting Tops Halfway Point
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
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
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
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
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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