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AgDay Markets Now: Jim McCormick Says Wheat Leads the Grains Monday. Are the Markets on the Verge of a Breakout?
AgDay Markets Now: Jim McCormick Says Wheat Leads the Grains Monday. Are the Markets on the Verge of a Breakout?

Jim McCormick, AgMarket.Net, says the wheat market is adding risk premium and if it keeps going corn and soybeans could follow producing a sustained fund short covering rally.

Michelle Rook
Pete's Pick of the Week
Machinery Pete: 33-Year-Old John Deere Fetches High Auction Haul
Machinery Pete: 33-Year-Old John Deere Fetches High Auction Haul

Machinery Pete continues to see higher than average farm equipment resale prices, and he has an idea why that is.

Matthew J. Grassi
Corn
Crop Progress Update: Planters Pick Up Steam Across Most States
Crop Progress Update: Planters Pick Up Steam Across Most States

Corn planting is now 2% ahead of the five year national average, while soybeans are currently 4% ahead, according to the April 22, 2024, USDA Crop Progress report.

Matthew J. Grassi
Market Analysis
Grain and Livestock Prices Higher in a "Risk On" Day, Adding Risk Premium: Is This Just the Start?
Grain and Livestock Prices Higher in a "Risk On" Day, Adding Risk Premium: Is This Just the Start?

A risk on day resulted in higher closes in both grain and livestock futures.  What drove the buying, and will it continue? Jim McCormick, AgMarket.Net, has details.  

Michelle Rook
Corn
How to Calculate Growing Degree Days (Simple Formula)
How to Calculate Growing Degree Days (Simple Formula)

Growing degree days (GDDs) are a more reliable method to predict corn emergence and development than calendar days. Start calculating GDDs daily the day after planting. Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie explains.

Rhonda Brooks
Market Analysis
Cattle Rally on Bullish COF Placements: Grains See More Short Covering on Weather
Cattle Rally on Bullish COF Placements: Grains See More Short Covering on Weather

Cattle rally with bullish placements in the Cattle on Feed report and steady Southern cash says Brad Kooima, Kooima Kooima Varilek. Hogs fail after a chart breakout. Grains rally on EU weather/frost & short covering.

Michelle Rook
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Global Farmer Network
Global Farmer Network
A Win for Common Sense and Science

The ideological controversy over glyphosate in Mexico is over for today.

Jon Scheve
Jon Scheve
Is The US Tight On Corn Or Are Farmers Just Not Selling?

Jon Scheve discusses why basis is increasing across the US and what it will take for corn prices to rally in the next few months.

Blue Line Futures
Blue Line Futures
Livestock RoundUp: Will the Cattle Rally Continue?

The monthly Cattle on Feed report was released Friday afternoon and had a bullish tilt to it, will that keep the cattle rally alive to start the week? Watch us on RFD-TV, today at 9:45am CT!

Blue Line Futures
Blue Line Futures
Grain Markets Mixed to Start the Week

Corn and soybeans are trading near unchanged while wheat futures are adding on to Friday's gains.