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Tidbits, Canola, Oil & Gas, South America Crops, Export Sales 4/18/25
Tidbits The markets are closed today for Good Friday. They will reopen normal times on Sunday. Why have soybean futures been surprisingly...
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6 days ago4 min read
Tidbits, April S&D, Inflation, Brazil Crops, Drought Monitor, Export Sales 4/11/25
Highlights The biggest news piece from yesterday’s S&D was the USDA increased corn exports by 100 million bushels. As many expected, the...
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Apr 115 min read
Tidbits, Tariff Retaliations, OPEC+ Increase, South America Crops, Export Sales 4/4/25
Tidbits OPEC+ is reversing its production cuts with output set to rise by more than expected in May because they see continuing healthy...
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Apr 45 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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Mar 284 min read
Tidbits, Dock Fees, EU Tariffs, Bean-Eggs, Export Sales 3/21/25
Highlights Crude oil was higher yesterday in past because of this press release yesterday morning from the U.S. Treasury : Today, the...
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Mar 215 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...
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Mar 145 min read
Tidbits, Tariffs Postponed, Wheat Estimates, EU Military, Export Sales 3/7/25
Highlights Early yesterday afternoon, President Trump said, "After speaking with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, I have agreed...
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Mar 76 min read
Tidbits, Corn Market, China Maritime, Deliveries, Export Sales 2/28/25
Highlights On Wednesday, President Trump postponed for 30 days the 25% tariff on Canadian and Mexican imports scheduled to be applied on...
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Feb 284 min read
Tidbits, South America, Cattle on Feed, Acreage Estimate, Export Sales 2/22/25
Tidbits March options expired yesterday at the close. Corn and bean prices were lower, which usually happens on the expiration day for...
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Feb 225 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...
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Feb 144 min read
Tidbits, Crude Oil, SA Weather, Mexico & GMO Corn, US Export Sales 2/7/25
Highlights Crude oil futures lost a dollar Thursday morning and closed about 40¢ lower after President Donald Trump repeated a pledge to...
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Feb 75 min read
Tidbits, Tariffs, Economies, Eggs, Export Sales 1/31/25
Highlights The weather forecast has rain coming to the dry areas of South America a day sooner next week than expected yesterday, but the...
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Jan 315 min read
Tidbits, Market Situation, Export Sales 1/25/25
Tidbits / Market Comment When it comes to marketing grain and oil seeds, you are living in historic times. Never have we had so many...
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Jan 255 min read
Tidbits, 45Z, Uruguay Crops, Winter Wheat, Export Sales 1/17/25
Highlights The weather forecasters have come to the consensus there will be significant rainfall in the dry areas of South America...
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Jan 176 min read
Tidbits, Jan S&D, Export Sales 1/11/25
Highlights The market reaction to the USDA numbers was bullish for corn and beans. Corn should have been stronger than it was given as...
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Jan 115 min read
Tidbits, Commercial Storage & DP, Corn & Beans Prices, Export Sales 1/4/25
Highlights Why did corn and beans crash and burn yesterday? The Weekly Export Sales report issued yesterday morning was terrible as it...
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Jan 46 min read
Tidbits, Corn, Crude Oil, Broilers & Ethanol, Export Sales 12/28/24
Tidbits March corn settled a quarter cents higher yesterday, but higher none-the-less for the sixth consecutive day. More importantly,...
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Dec 28, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Farm Index, Brazil Wheat, Japan, Export Sales 12/20/24
Tidbits South Korea bought 201,000 mts of corn: 136,000 mts is expected from unspecified sources and 65,000 mts from South America. Japan...
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Dec 20, 20244 min read
Tidbits, Inflation, Fuel, South America Estimates, Export Sales 12/13/24
Tidbits The U.S. Producer Price Index (PPI) was reported yesterday morning. It is the measure of inflation at the wholesale level. It was...
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Dec 13, 20245 min read
Tidbits, Premium Contracts, Australian and Russian Crops, Export Sales 12/6/24
Highlights OPEC+ on Thursday has postponed the revival of its oil production by three months, now set to begin in April 2025 instead of...
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Dec 6, 20246 min read
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