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

Deadline For Signup Is Midnight … May 31, 2008. If you’re not yet playing MarketMaxx – the corn and soybean marketing game that can win you one year’s use of a new Gleaner combine or an AGCO tractor – then go to http://www.MarketMaxx.net now and get signed up today...

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...