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Michelle Rook

National Reporter

Michelle Rook is a national agricultural reporter and market analyst for Farm Journal’s AgDay and U.S. Farm Report, and she is the host of Markets Now. With expertise in commodity markets, grain trading, and agricultural journalism, she delivers daily market updates and analysis to farmers nationwide. She earned the NAFB Farm Broadcaster of the Year award and the prestigious Doan Excellence in Reporting Award.

Latest Stories
Market Analysis
Grains Continue to Soar on Weather: How High Could Prices Get if Funds Keep Buying?
Grains rally on weather and technical buying. Will funds keep covering their short positions with the chart breakouts and what kind of rally could that produce? Tommy Grisafi, Advance Trading, has answers.
May 06, 2024 05:52 PM
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Politics
GREET Guidance for SAF Tax Credit Misses the Mark
The SAF guidance was more stringent than the biofuels industry hoped for. Eligibility requires carbon capture or farmers adopting Climate Smart Ag practices. However, they consider use of the GREET model a victory.
May 06, 2024 05:03 PM
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Market Analysis
Cattle Fall on H5N1 News, Disregard Higher Cash: Grains Extend Rally on Weather
Brad Kooima, Kooima Kooima Varilek, says cattle are trading more H5N1 headlines and disregarding higher cash, hogs are following. Grains are adding weather premium, but he cautions weather rallies are fleeting.
May 06, 2024 09:46 AM
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Market Analysis
AgDay Markets Now: Don Roose Says Funds Will Need Continued Weather Problems to Keep Buying Grains
Don Roose, U.S. Commodities, says grain markets are trading weather and have had some chart breakouts. That could keep funds buying but only if weather continues to be bullish.
May 05, 2024 07:42 PM
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Jerry Gulke -- Weekend Market Report
Market Analysis
Gulke: Is Weather Really Driving the Grain Rally?
Corn, soybean and soybean meal futures posted higher weekly closes, but it’s hard to predict how far the grain markets could rally, says Jerry Gulke. “Now it becomes more of an art than a science,” he adds.
May 04, 2024 11:10 AM
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Market Analysis
Grains Supported by Weather, Fund Short Covering: What Will it Take to Sustain the Rally?
Grains ended higher on Friday with chart breakouts on weather and crop concerns, plus fund short covering. Cattle mixed, hogs. lower.
May 03, 2024 05:51 PM
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Market Analysis
Snodgrass: What’s Going on With South American and U.S. Weather That’s Getting the Markets Attention?
Grain markets have been rallying this week on weather and crop concerns and it’s not just wheat. Eric Snodgrass, Senior Science Fellow, Nutrien Ag Solutions, talks about Northern and Southern Hemisphere weather.
May 03, 2024 02:15 PM
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Market Analysis
Grains Continue to Rally on Weather, Crop Concerns, Technical Chart Breakouts
Grains continue higher with weather concerns in the U.S. and SA, a lower dollar and funds are covering shorts with the stronger technical action says Darin Newsom with Barchart. Will the funds eventually buy grains?
May 03, 2024 10:18 AM
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Market Analysis
AgDay Markets Now: John Payne Explains the Surge in Grains and Cattle and If There’s More Upside
John Payne, Advance Trading, says soybeans and soybean meal led the grain rally Thursday on short covering and adding weather premium with heavy rains and flooding in southern Brazil and parts of Argentina.
May 03, 2024 07:42 AM
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Market Analysis
Grains Surge Adding Weather Premium: Is This the Start of a Bigger Chart Breakout and Fund Short Covering Rally?
John Payne, Advance Trading says grains rally on fund short covering and weather, with a higher day in cattle and lower close in cotton....again.
May 02, 2024 06:03 PM
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