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Tidbits, Fertilizers, Chinese Ships, Grain Inventory Estimates 3/30/25
Highlights India is, by far, the largest world buyer of nitrogen fertilizer and they prefer urea. This past week India finally issued...
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4 days ago4 min read
Tidbits, Planting & Inventory Estimates 3/29/25
Tidbits Yesterday, May corn futures contract made a new low at $4.42 for “the move” (meaning since the recent high was made at $5.18¾ on...
Wright Team
5 days ago5 min read
Tidbits, Biofuels, Pigs Report, Corn Estimates, Export Sales 3/28/25
Tidbits The Trump administration has urged oil and biofuels producers to collaborate on a new biofuels policy to prevent political...
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6 days ago4 min read
Tidbits, Acres Estimates, PMI, Black Sea Grain, ENSO, Export Inspections 3/25/25
Highlights Pro Farmer released their U.S. planting projections on Friday. They expect 3.5% more corn acres at 93.75 million acres and a...
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Mar 254 min read
Tidbits, South America Estimates, Canadian Acres & Crush, Export Sales 3/14/25
Highlights CONAB ( Brazil’s USDA) updated its production estimates yesterday (all numbers are million mts): Soybeans: 167.369, up 1.346...
Wright team
Mar 145 min read
Tidbits, Tariffs, Fertilizer, S&D Estimates 3/8/25
Highlights AgrInvest Commodities cash grain trader for exports, Eduardo Vanin , yesterday morning: "The soybean basis rally continues....
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Mar 85 min read
Tidbits, SAF Prospects, New Crop Estimates, Brazil Crops, Broilers & Ethanol 2/27/25
Highlights First thing this morning the USDA will release its projections for 2025 crops and that includes the S&D with acres planted,...
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Feb 276 min read
Tidbits, Global Estimates, Fertilizers, Spring Weather, Broiler & Ethanol 2/21/25
Highlights March CBOT options expire today which usually means lower prices. The expected hot weather in Argentina this weekend sent...
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Feb 215 min read
Tidbits, SA Crops Estimates, Russia, PPI, Export Sales 2/14/25
Highlights After the ag futures close today, they will not reopen until Monday evening at normal times. Crude oil will be trading normal...
Wright team
Feb 144 min read
Tidbits, Brazil, Economy, S&D Estimates 2/8/25
Highlights The weather pattern Mato Grosso and Goias through Wednesday is expected to allow a sharp advance in the harvest pace. Weather...
Wright team
Feb 85 min read
Tidbits, Basis is Negotiable, Argentine Weather, Crop Budgets 1/20/25
Ag market futures will resume trading at normal time this evening. Crude oil began trading as its usual time last evening, namely 5 PM...
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Jan 203 min read
Tidbits, Soybeans, S&D Estimates 1/8/25
Highlights Agricultural markets will close at 12:15 PM CST tomorrow, January 9th in a National Day of Mourning for former President Jimmy...
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Jan 84 min read
Tidbits and Market Situation 12/18/24
Tidbits If you have beans on a January basis contract, get them rolled today to March. This market may go inverted (January premium to...
Wright team
Dec 18, 20245 min read
Tidbits, Premium Contracts, Crude Oil, S&D Estimates 12/7/24
Tidbits A 25% tariff on imported Canadian crude oil would have a major impact on North American energy markets, driving up prices for...
Wright team
Dec 7, 20245 min read
Tidbits, Missiles, Grains Council Estimates, Export Sales 11/22/24
Highlights December CBOT options expire today. As we wrote earlier, President Biden authorized Ukraine to strike deep into Russian...
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Nov 22, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Trump, S&D Estimates, Brazil & Argentina Crops, Broilers & Ethanol 11/7/24
Highlights Leaders of foreign countries who sell products to the U.S. markets, are scurrying to prepare to deal with President Trump’s...
Wright team
Nov 7, 20246 min read
Tidbits, Q&A: Export Sales, Crop Production Estimates 11/6/24
Highlights Yesterday morning, the USDA announced the sale of 124,000 mts of corn to unknown. Dr. Michael Cordonnier left his South...
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Nov 6, 20244 min read
Tidbits, China, Yield Estimates, ENSO 10/15/24
Highlights Yesterday’s U.S. commodity market was down on harvest pressure and China sent a record 125 military aircraft to encircle...
Wright team
Oct 15, 20245 min read
Tidbits, US Economy, Crop Estimates, Food Security, Export Sales 10/11/24
Highlights The USDA will release at 11 AM Central Time today its monthly S&D. Note below every average estimate is less than the...
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Oct 11, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Oils, Estimates, Weather, Brazil-Mexico, Broilers & Ethanol 10/10/24
Highlights The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) weekly report highlights: U.S. ethanol production was up; market expected it...
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Oct 10, 20245 min read
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