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This article cleverly compares different marketing strategies to tools found in a farmer’s toolbox.

This week the corn and bean markets were dominated by upcoming weather uncertainty and Friday’s Supreme Court ruling against the ethanol industry and potentially the entire renewable fuels industry.

The market is trying to determine what the upcoming harvest yields will be. Early reports where harvest has started south of I-80 are positive.

This article discusses how the wheat market correlates to the corn market and if the recent wheat price increases signal corn prices will also increase.

This week’s biggest story was the inverse spread between the May and July contracts. Generally, inverses indicate the market is short on supply.

The corn market wasn’t very exciting this week as the range in closing prices was only 12 cents. This was the smallest one-week trading range since late July.

Over the last 5 trading sessions corn dropped 90 cents, while beans were nearly unchanged.

This article discusses what caused last week’s bean and corn rallies and if these prices can hold out long term.

Which USDA Reports Should Farmers Give Their Attention To?

This week’s USDA report had positive news for farmers, with both on farm stocks and planted acres being lower than the trade was estimating.