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Warning signs about the health of the general economy are blaring, but Farmer Mac’s summer issue of “The Feed” shows why ag lenders are in a better financial position to help farmers weather the higher costs.

Livestock are mixed at midday, cattle helped by lower grains trade. Grains pressured in a risk off session, with more favorable weather and grain moving out of Ukraine.

This article discusses my 2021 corn crop positions.

U.S. estimates show global wheat levels are stockpiled at 33% of annual consumption. Gro Intelligence says the world’s numerous economic crises prove government estimates are “not adding up.”

The Fed’s action to raise interest rates and negative second quarter GDP have many experts saying the U.S. is in recession. So what are some of the trends we’re seeing and what’s likely down the road?

A risk off day produces a lower market opening except for cattle. What is driving it? Michelle Rook has details with Chuck Shelby of Risk Management Commodities.

For the first time since the war started, a Ukrainian ship carrying grain left port. The UN says the Razoni was carrying 26,527 MT of corn. The vessel was stuck in port since Feb. 18, before the start of the war.

U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Thursday that grain shipments from Ukraine could resume as soon as today but that details of the exact coordinates of shipping routes were still being finalized.

Heavy Russian strikes hit the southern Ukrainian port city of Mykolaiv overnight and early on Sunday, killing the owner of one of the country’s largest grain producing and exporting companies, the local governor said.

Man-made disasters are the worst. And what just happened in Sri Lanka is an eye-opener and offers warnings about food production for the rest of the world—and perhaps most especially for my country of India.