Jerry Gulke

Jerry Gulke is a corn and soybean farmer in Northern Illinois and a contributing editor of Top Producer Magazine and AgWeb.com. Jerry’s view is that producers should be afforded the opportunity from the market place to capture profitable opportunities that will allow them a standard of living comparable to other non-Ag professions.

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Slow planting, inflation, next week’s USDA reports and more are impacting the markets. Jerry Gulke shares his outlook.
Price discovery suggests price will go high enough until demand is curbed sufficiently so we will not run out of stocks, but someone(s) might have to use less.
Price rationing could last at least 15 months, or until the 2023 South American soybean crop is seen as a record.
The world changed quickly over the last days, requiring a reassessment and perhaps “reset” in thinking.
Last year, prices rallied from January to May, and a repeat certainly is in the cards.
At best, the CME wheat futures gave a shot over the bow, showing just how quickly market sentiment can change.
A review of where we have been and the impact at this juncture is warranted.
The inflation genie is out of the bottle and might be as difficult to get back in as it was in the 1970s. As Yogi Berra would say, “It’s Déjà vu all over again!” Or is it?
Every story has a beginning and an ending. The soybean story began in August 2020 after two years of a sideways base-building affair.
The questions of if fundamentals really matter anymore have surfaced recently. A look at price discovery for HRSW gives some insight.