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The stage is set for a price rally, as dry conditions continue to be a major concern in most of the Midwest and an emphasis in the western and northern regions.

Cover your cash sales with tools that allow you to participate. By 4/23/2021 Here is an interesting question. When can you afford not to sell? Say what? When can I afford not to sell? Most might answer that question with an “I don’t know.”   The answer is probably when you cannot live with yourself for bypassing prices you know you should take. Your instinct to make a marketing decision is probably correct, yet sometimes not be easy to execute. Often emotion and oth...

iStock: simazoran The rally in December corn and November soybean prices throughout February had December corn futures averaging $4.58 and November soybeans $11.87, some of the highest levels in recent history.  These average futures prices are what the crop insurance industry uses to establish revenue coverage. Depending on the level of insurance purchased, you will establish a revenue guarantee per acre. That revenue guarantee is a function of production history and the average Febru...

The March 9 USDA Supply and Demand report came and went. Little to no changes came from the balance tables for corn, wheat and soybeans, and markets tumbled on the

By all accounts, the March Supply and Demand report was a dud. Do not expect the same in the future.

NOW Magazine Parkdale tenants keep their rent over building upkeep The tenants are withholding partial rent from their corporate landlord in response to what they call unfair living conditions By Julia Mastroianni Google Street View of 55 Triller Avenue in Parkdale. Tenants in a Parkdale building are withholding a third of their rent in an effort to send a message to a corporate landlord over what they call unfair living conditions. The building, located at 55 Triller and managed by DM...

Understand the ramifications and what-ifs of a grain contract, analyst says. By 2/26/2021 The recovery in grain prices since August due to robust demand, smaller crops, and weather uncertainty in South America has left the corn and soybean markets vulnerable to explosive upside potential. At the same time, prices could significantly turn lower, as world supplies are expected to rise in the year ahead. Since the drought of 2012, row crop commodity prices have generally lan...

It is important you capture that opportunity. Hindsight is great if you want to look at what you could have or should have done with your marketing. In the real world, everyone knows that each time you make a marketing decision, it is in front of uncertainty and unknowns. You have your hands full, being a producer and a manager of inventory. Marketing takes a consistent effort to continually reevaluate the marketplace and make decisions that make sense for you and your operation. It also inc...

For end users, the just-in-time inventory approach should be abandoned.

A short-dated option in the corn market has an underlying instrument, December futures, to derive the value of the contract.