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Tidbits, Crude Oil, Short-Dated Options, S&D Estimates 5/8/24
Highlights The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced yesterday a tender to purchase 3.3 million barrels of crude oil for October...
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May 8, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Crude Oil & Dollar, Brazil Weather 5/4/24
Highlights December corn closed above its 100-day moving average on Thursday, which attracted more technical buying on Friday. Non-farm...
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May 4, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Crude Oil, Wheat, Cocoa, Export Sales 4/5/24
Tidbits Yesterday morning, USDA announced the sale of 152,404 mts of old crop soybeans to Mexico. Datagro expects to see Brazil’s April...
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Apr 5, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Chinese Сancelations, Russian Crude Oil, Broilers & Ethanol 4/4/24
Highlights Yesterday’s end of the day comments from a grain merchandiser: "There was little fresh news today making it difficult to...
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Apr 4, 20244 min read
Tidbits, USDA Numbers, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Export Sales 3/29/24
CBOT Grain, CME Livestock and Dairy & NYMEX Energy Markets are closed on Friday March 29. Trade resumes normal evening session on Sunday...
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Mar 29, 20243 min read
Tidbits, OPEC Cuts, World Temperature, Deliveries 3/4/24
Highlights OPEC+ members agreed yesterday to extend voluntary oil output cuts of 2.2 million barrels per day into the second quarter of...
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Mar 4, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Tom Skilling, Brazil Corn, Crude Oil Cuts 2/28/24
Tom Skilling has been a meteorologist on Chicago TV for 45 years. Today is his last day on the job for WGN. When ~4,500 people worked on...
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Feb 28, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Brazil, Crude Oil, Markets & Rain Days Update 1/8/24
Highlights Saudi Aramco on Sunday said it would cut crude oil prices $2 a barrel in February versus the Oman/Dubai regional benchmark...
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Jan 8, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Crude Oil, Broilers & Ethanol, Markets & Rain Days Update 12/7/23
Highlights Smithfield canceled its contracts with 26 US hog farms. Yesterday morning, USDA announced the sale of 372,000 mts of old crop...
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Dec 7, 20234 min read
Tidbits, Brazil, China, Crude Oil & Fuel, Markets & Rain Days Update 12/6/23
USDA is now accepting applications for farm loans online: https://www.fsa.usda.gov/news-room/news-releases/2023/usda-now-accepting-applic...
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Dec 6, 20235 min read
Tidbits, OPEC, Soybean Meal, Export Sales, Markets & Rain Days Update 12/1/23
Highlights OPEC agreed to reduce oil production at its meeting in Vienna yesterday. The crude market rallied sharply immediately after...
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Dec 1, 20234 min read
Tidbits, Wheat & Corn Comment, Export Sales, Markets & Rain Days Update 11/17/23
Highlights Yesterday, the market saw some economic reports from Asia and the USA that were somewhat negative; stuff like US unemployment...
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Nov 17, 20234 min read
Tidbits, Soybeans, Crude Oil, ENSO, Markets & Rain Days Update 11/8/23
Highlights Instead of writing about what caused the markets to fall out of bed yesterday and how terrible yesterday’s price action was...
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Nov 8, 20234 min read
Tidbits, Crude Oil, Corn, Export Sales, Markets & Rain Days Update 10/20/23
Received 6:40 AM yesterday, thanks, Jason: "CHS Fairmont, MN soybean basis firmed from -.20 to + .5 today. Thanks for the great info...
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Oct 20, 20234 min read
Tidbits, Silk Road, Israel & Crude Oil, Broilers & Ethanol, Markets & Rain Days Update 10/19/23
Highlights A sea of red (lower prices) across world stock markets and another surge in U.S. Treasury yields on Wednesday ensured a...
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Oct 19, 20235 min read
Tidbits, OPEC, Calls vs DP, Export Inspections, Markets & Rain Days Update 10/3/23
Highlights OPEC members, Nigeria and Iran, have been cheating on their crude oil quota the past two months while other OPEC members did...
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Oct 3, 20235 min read
Tidbits, Gas, OPEC, New Crop Marketing, Markets & Rain Days Update 6/5/23
Q&A: Gas Prices "Roger, do you have a recommendation for fall/winter l.p. prices? The quotes I received yesterday are the lowest ones so...
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Jun 5, 20235 min read
Tidbits, Crude Oil, Economy, Broilers & Ethanol, Markets & Rain Days Update 6/2/23
Highlights The OPEC+ meeting this Sunday was called by Saudi Arabia to chastise other members for pumping more crude oil than they...
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Jun 2, 20233 min read
Tidbits, Crude Oil, Markets & Rain Days Update 4/15/23
Highlights CHS reported some Iowa ethanol plants pushed their corn basis yesterday 25 cents to +75N (75 over the July futures for...
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Apr 15, 20233 min read
Tidbits, Fuel, Markets & Rain Days Update 4/3/23
Highlights A major winter storm is expected April 3 to 5 from the Central Rockies to the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest, bringing...
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Apr 3, 20233 min read
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