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Tidbits, Dry Weather, Basis, Markets & Rain Days Update 6/20/23
Highlights It will be very hot this week in the crop areas of China with temperatures in Shandong and Hebei provinces expected to be over...
Wright Team
Jun 20, 20233 min read
Tidbits, Q&A: Marketing Actions & Weather Rally, Markets & Rain Days Update 6/19/23
Highlights The Tech Guy did a great job updating the weather situation with his mailing to his blog followers last evening. If you missed...
Wright Team
Jun 19, 20235 min read
Tidbits, Weather, Contract Rolling, Broilers & Ethanol, Markets & Rain Days Update 6/8/23
Highlights Yesterday’s mid-day GFS run showed a slightly wetter Delta and a slightly drier Argentina. Last evening’s GFS run predicted...
Wright Team
Jun 8, 20234 min read
Tidbits, Wheat Basis, Market Commentary, Markets & Rain Days Update 5/30/23
When to lock-in Soft Red Winter Wheat Basis For the past 15 to 20 years, the firmest basis for new crop soft red winter wheat has been...
Wright Team
May 30, 20233 min read
Tidbits, Rolling the Basis, Crop Progress, Export Inspections, Markets & Rain Days Update 4/25/23
Rolling Basis Contracts: The Math A May basis contract needs to be rolled or priced by the close of business Thursday. We recommend all...
Wright Team
Apr 25, 20234 min read
Tidbits, Banks, Diesel, Basis Lock-In, Export Inspections, Markets & Rain Days Update 3/21/23
Highlights The stock value of First Republic Bank (FRB) slid to an all-time low yesterday after S&P Global lowered FRB’s credit rating...
Wright Team
Mar 21, 20234 min read
Weekly Basis 3/12/23
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) settled at 31,909.64, -1,481.33 points for the week. Crude oil settled at $76.68, -3.17. The...
Wright Team
Mar 12, 20233 min read
Tidbits, Q&A and Education on Basis, Markets & Rain Days Update 2/21/23
Highlights There is no consensus as to how many of Argentina's acres were damaged or how many mts were lost. We will get hundreds of...
Wright Team
Feb 21, 20235 min read
Tidbits, Basis Management, Meal Puts, Markets & Rain Days Update 2/8/23
Highlights The USDA monthly S&D and World Production reports will be issued today at 10 AM Mountain Time. Russian military units are...
Wright Team
Feb 8, 20234 min read
Highlights, Managing Basis, Markets & Rain Days Update 11/21/22
Highlights The G7 will cap the price of Russian crude oil effective December 5th and the EU will ban Russian crude oil imports from the...
Wright Team
Nov 21, 20223 min read
Managing The Basis to Maximize Cash Price
The first principle of marketing grain is to separate the day one locks-in the basis from the day one locks-in the futures price. Why?...
Wright Team
Nov 17, 20222 min read
Basis Contracts 9/24/22
Basis Contracts: Purpose Math of a Valuable Marketing Tool Basis contracts allow a farmer to deliver grain he cannot store, maintain a...
Wright Team
Sep 25, 20222 min read
Highlights, Basis, Markets & Rain Days Update 9/3/22
Highlights On September 10, Kazakhstan will remove export restrictions on wheat and flour it set in May to lower domestic prices....
Wright Team
Sep 4, 20223 min read
Highlights, Basis Comments, Yuan, Markets & Rain Days Update 8/29/22
Highlights December corn gapped higher last evening for the third time since the low was made July 22nd. None of the gaps have been...
Wright Team
Aug 29, 20223 min read
Highlights, Deferred Basis, Markets & Rain Days Update 8/26/22
Highlights Corn and beans were due for a downturn correction and the Pro Farmer Tour moving into Iowa yesterday was the trigger for...
Wright Team
Aug 26, 20225 min read
Highlights, Beans Basis, Markets & Rain Days Update 8/10/22
Highlights Yesterday morning, the USDA announced the sale of 133,000 mts of new crop corn to China DTN’s Digital Yield Tour says corn...
Wright Team
Aug 10, 20225 min read
Highlights, Fall Delivery Basis, Rain Days Update 8/7/22
Time to Make Decisions About Fall Delivery Basis If you know you will have to deliver corn or beans during harvest, you need to make the...
Wright Team
Aug 7, 20224 min read
Highlights, Corn Demand, Export Inspections, Markets & Rain Days Update 7/26/22
Highlights Russia admitted it fired the missiles into the harbor at Odessa, but they say the target was military infrastructure and that...
Wright Team
Jul 26, 20223 min read
Weekly Basis 02/26/2022
The Dow Jones Industrial Average settled at 34,058.75, down 20.43 points for the week. Crude oil was at $92.08 late Friday, up 51 cents...
Wright Team
Feb 25, 20224 min read
Market conversation – cash versus basis and futures selling
Roger Wright joins FarmProgress.com webinar for a live marketing discussion. He'll explore the idea of separating the pricing of the...
Wright Team
Feb 11, 20221 min read
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