If you wonder why I spent so much time the last few years writing two books focused on speculation in commodity futures markets (my wife…
An interesting new article from Reuters on the current travails of the US renewable diesel industry was published this week. The article is not only…
I believe pictures like those shown below cause no end of confusion with respect to the analysis of grain markets. The first picture is my…
I published a new farmdoc daily article this week about the trend in the U.S. average corn yield. This is a key driver of overall…
One of the most basic tasks in the supply/demand analysis for grains at this time of year is the estimation of trend yields. You would…
In a recent post, I talked about the “golden number” for crop production in the U.S. Corn Belt in 2023. I called July precipitation the…
In a previous post, I talked about the “golden number” for crop production in the U.S. Corn Belt. While it is certainly not the only…
Sometimes you need to figure out something that was going on in the grain or livestock markets in the past and Wikipedia just does not…
What is the golden number for Illinois agriculture? I ask this question every year to the students in my commodity price analysis class. It’s guaranteed…