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Grains were higher across the board last week, but the price action to start the week has so far been mixed.

Joe Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek says live and feeder cattle futures are higher early Monday but after a second week of lower weekly closes, he’s not sure if the market can retest the highs.

“What’s really gratifying is that we find, generally, 80% to 90% of people in the U.S. want this product,” says Nathan Pumplin, CEO of Norfolk Healthy Produce, the company behind the Empress Purple Tomato.

Jon Scheve discusses early yield reports he is receiving from farmers throughout the US to determine what the market may expect moving forward.

Weekly overview of ag commodity market news and price action compiled by Austin Schroeder with Brugler Marketing. Not intended as trading advice. Actions taken are responsibility of the reader.

Market analysts says the September WASDE did not fully account for the disease pressure and dry finish in the East in both the corn and soybean crop.

Consumers may think that food inflation helps farmers because they assume we’re getting more money for our crops and our livestock. Yet this is not true. We don’t receive the shop price. A lot of what consumers spend goes to retail overhead, fuel and transportation, tariffs, and more.

Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group, says USDA also confirmed record demand at 16.1 billion bu. That estimate struck him as one of the most important parts of the September report.

Chip Nellinger with Blue Reef Agri-Marketing says corn rallied on Friday in reaction to USDA’s 2.1 bu. per acre yield cut to 186.7 bu. cut he thinks there are bigger cuts yet to come.