Corn
Corn pegged at 12.484 billion bu.; soybeans at 3.083 billion bu.
Guest this week include Pro Farmer’s Chip Flory. Grain market analysis with Matt Bennett, Ellen Deardon and Bill Mayer.
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David Tolleris of WxRisk.com provides his weather outlook.
Above-normal temps expected across key growing areas into harvest.
No signs of significant heat moving into central Plains or Midwest by Aug. 25.
USDA crop progress and condition report highlights.
Will these changes decrease or increase market volatility?
Don’t hold your corn and expect a basis gain to pay for storage, because it’s unlikely to happen.
A drop in corn yields was expected, but the market was trading 155-156 bu./acre corn yield.
The grain markets were in a tug of war this week between declining yield ideas in corn and late week economic concerns.
Commodity exchange amends proposal for new limits to go further than originally proposed.
Eliminating the ethanol mandate and tax credit would decrease ethanol production, says an Iowa State University economist .
The release includes new SILAGE-SPECIFIC™ BMR and TMF corn hybrids for the 2012 growing season, including three with SmartStax® trait technology.
Higher fertilizer costs continue the trend of higher production costs for corn, leading to higher break-even corn prices necessary to cover costs.
What will be this year’s actual harvested acreage, and how will weather affect yields on those acres?
With the release of the acreage report today by the USDA, farmers around the country are concerned with the government agency’s accuracy.
North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Montana, will be resurveyed.
Because of late planting and flood related crop losses, acreage uncertainty will linger for several months.
Get ready for a big move in corn prices. USDA’s June Grain Stocks report comes out tomorrow morning, and it tends to swing the market.
If the ethanol subsidy is eliminated as some in Congress are calling for, corn stocks-to-use could increase, potentially putting modest pressure on corn prices.