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CFTC COT Report Analysis

The CFTC report featured more bullish sentiments from managed money traders with funds slightly expanding a massive long position in corn and adding length...

Market Commentary: Down Day but Most of the Week Was Temporarily Up

Today’s trading was mostly lower based on South American weather and the ever-present tariff threat. Overall, the first week in February 2025 experie...

Summary of Futures

Mar 25 Corn closed at $4.875/bushel, down $0.0775 from yesterday's close.  Mar 25 Wheat closed at $5.8275/bushel, down $0.05 from yesterday's close.&n...

WPI 2025 Acreage Outlook

With the USDA’s annual Ag Outlook forum happening at the end of this month and planting season a little more than four weeks away for parts of the U...

U.S. Food Aid Status

The Trump Administration’s placement of the U.S. Agency for International Development on ice has sparked a firestorm in Washington. Critics of the ag...

FOB Prices and Freight Rates App (Updated 7 February)

Transportation and Freight Market Comments - 7 February 2025 By Matt Herrington Dry-Bulk Ocean Freight Dry bulk freight markets saw incredibly weak demand...

Market Commentary: Tariff Drama on Hold, Back to South American Weather

The upheaval in the market early this week caused by the head fake on tariffs has subsided and the focus has now returned to fundamental supply and demand...

Export Sales

Export Sales and Shipments for January 24-30, 2025.  Wheat: Net sales of 438,900 metric tons (MT) for 2024/2025 were down 4 percent from the previous...

Summary of Futures

Mar 25 Corn closed at $4.9525/bushel, up $0.02 from yesterday's close.  Mar 25 Wheat closed at $5.8775/bushel, up $0.155 from yesterday's close. ...

Market Commentary: Volatile As Long As Tariffs Are Uncertain

The big news in the ag commodity markets Wednesday was the pullback in soybean futures as traders remain wary of the political tensions and tariff developm...

Summary of Futures

Mar 25 Corn closed at $4.9325/bushel, down $0.0125 from yesterday's close.  Mar 25 Wheat closed at $5.7225/bushel, down $0.0475 from yesterday's close...

Divergence of Markets; Fear No Beer; Little Net Gain

Divergence of Markets Food away from home has been outpacing food at home as the cost of human services has written. The categories on the rise include mea...

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