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A much better day, and this time the early strength stuck. Corn and beans were firm overnight just like Monday, but instead of fading they kept adding to the…

Disappointing close after what seemed like promising early strength. Soybeans managed to hang on to a very small gain, but a far cry from their peak gain of…

Another lower lean to finish the week, though the selling was a good deal more orderly than it was earlier in the week. Corn and beans were both weaker overn…

The quarterly stocks report landed on corn, and it landed hard. Corn had been a few cents higher into the 11:00 release, then was down more than 20 within mi…

A quieter, corrective sort of day after Monday's washout, with corn and beans both staying inside yesterday's range on light volume as the trade squared up f…

With the Trump/Xi summit finally over, and details of the talks released, the markets gave a big thumbs down on the news. The bottom line is that although so…

Xi's last day in Washington started with our markets washing out overnight, as the summit wrapped up with nothing new on ag purchases. Corn was down better t…

The first day of formal meetings brought a third straight session with a lower lean, although beans and wheat did come well off their lows into the close. Co…

Quiet, two sided trade today after Monday's surge, and on noticeably lighter volume. Everything was firmer to start and softer by the end of it, even with th…

A risk off finish to the week with our markets lower across the board. Beans took the brunt of it, trading nearly 20 cents lower at their worst before findin…

Another back and forth session for our markets, and one that did not end up far from where it started. Corn and beans were firm overnight and gave all of it…

A back and forth session for our markets. Overnight it looked like corn and beans wanted to make another run at their recent contract highs, with beans up mo…

Grains started the day on the back foot after a weaker overnight session, but steadily found buyers once the day session opened where corn and beans both fin…

A relatively quiet day but corn and soybeans managed to show some firmness after some early weakness in the night trade. A sharply higher crude oil market pr…

We were set up for a quiet positioning day ahead of tomorrow's report and that is not what we got. The energy complex took off and pulled our markets along w…

Beans spent another session consolidating within the same tight range that has held for more than a week now, edging lower today but nowhere close to testing…

It was a choppy, two sided session, corn and beans opening under real pressure overnight, beans down as much as a quarter and corn down close to a dime at th…

Corn, beans, and wheat all pushed to fresh contract highs again today, extending a run that has now lasted the better part of a month. Beans led the way, cle…

Choppy day with lots of news items pointing different directions, ultimately ending with little changed corn and soybeans. Wheat was hit hard out of the gate…

Corn and beans again opened firm today, this time led by a Trump post saying he would raise the 2027 Renewable Volume Obligation by as much as 500 million ga…