Kansas Wheat is entering a period of seasonal strength. The March, May, July butterfly spread has hypothetically profited in 13 of the past 15 years when entered on July 25 and exited on December 28....
5 | Change is coming in 2025 US biomass-based diesel imports are on track to exceed one billion gallons in 2024. Effective January 1, the government will no longer incentivize biofuel imports as the current...
Jim's take on reading and reacting to speculator open interest ratio to hedgers
Wheat futures were swimming against the bearish tide on Friday, or perhaps unwinding some inter-market spreads. In any event, all three US markets were higher. Chicago futures settled 5 to 8 cents higher....
Soybean futures settled 1 ¼ to 7 ¼ lower on Friday, with the inverse (a.k.a backwardation) continuing to expand on good crusher demand for nearby beans and big expectations for 2024/25 global production....
Corn futures couldn’t hold initial gains into the Friday close, as quite a few markets sold off going into the weekend. Net changes were fractional, down ¾ to up ½ cent per bushel. Fairly benign weather...
Grain markets were uniformly higher in the early morning trade but fizzled out into the afternoon trade. Where does that leave us on the charts? Also, the monthly Cattle on Feed report was just released,...