Soybean News
The latest soybean commodity market news and insights for soybean producers and agribusiness.
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As Farm Journal’s Pam Fretwell and Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group, go over this year’s markets, they also look ahead to some surprises that may come into being in early 2018.
In 1983 for the first time, planted soybean acres surpassed corn acres by 3.5 million acres. Some market analysts thought 2017 would be another year this would happen, but it didn’t.
When USDA released its September Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE), corn and soybean prices saw red.
These estimates are based on assumptions for normal weather through September.
The latest Crop Progress report from USDA-NASS shows declining conditions for corn and soybean crops, and delayed corn maturity.
Official Day 4 results from the Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour.
Field reports, data and scout observations from Ohio during the 2017 Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour.
Official Day 2 results from the Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour.
The Dec. 12 WASDE report helped corn by raising ethanol usage by 50 million bushel, which reduced ending stocks—good news according to Jerry Gulke as he spoke to Host Pam Fretwell on Farm Journal Radio.
Official Day 3 results from the Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour.