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MONDAY OUTLOOK: WASDE REPORT
Today was the much-watched USDA crop production and World Agricultural Supply & Demand Estimates report and they surprised investors a bit by trimming the forecast for the record-breaking harvest...
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How Satellite Technology Is Predicting Crop Yields: Q&A with Thomson Reuters
As extreme weather becomes more frequent and increasingly impacts the price behavior of agricultural commodities, new and more sophisticated techniques of forecasting crop yields are emerging. One of...
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New Storage Alternatives Help Grain Farmers
A common sight in farm country during the 2014 harvest was massive piles of harvested corn and soybeans as big harvests overwhelmed storage capacity at grain elevators and co-ops. Big crops have...
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Rainy Season and Records for Grain Markets
In its July supply and demand report, the USDA lowered its estimate for 2015 ending corn and soybeans by a combined 175 million bushels, sending futures prices for both commodities higher. It’s just...
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As Food Prices Fall, A Change in Policy Coming for China?
China has a practice of embracing market forces on its own terms, particularly when it comes to commodities, where it is often the world’s largest buyer. This is especially the case with agricultural...
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With High Production, Is Food Deflation Here to Stay?
El Nino is wreaking havoc, the planet is breaking heat records and world population is on the rise. So where does that leave food prices? Almost implausibly, food prices are weak globally and while...
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Q&A: Catching Up with the Ag Economy Barometer
The Purdue/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer saw a five point jump in optimism from producers surveyed in September. That could be good news for an industry in the midst of a harvest season already seeing...
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How Grain Futures Contracts Revolutionized Finance
This is the second in a series of stories on products critical to futures markets that have defined their progress over 150 years. When the corn, wheat and oats futures contracts debuted in 1877,...
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The Weather and Politics of Agriculture in 2017
First, a refresher on weather patterns. El Nino: Warmer than usual waters in the Pacific around the equator La Nina: Colder than usual water along the equator. In his latest Off the Charts podcast...
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China, Brazil and The Future for U.S. Corn
It’s hard to imagine the world running short on corn when you consider the massive size of the U.S. corn crop. The U.S. corn belt, the granary to the world, sweeps across at least six Midwestern...
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Corn and Soybeans Are Facing Flood, Trade Cross Currents
Two major U.S. agricultural markets are being buffeted by serious cross currents. First, there is the escalating US-China trade war. In the tit-for-tat tariff wars, the Chinese have aimed at...
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The August USDA Report Will Show The Effects of Weather, Trade
A record 31 million acres of U.S. cropland were left to be planted at the middle of June, following a Central U.S. spring of excessive rainfall and below normal temperatures. The record number of acres...
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