Monthly Archives: March 2014

March 31st USDA Report Summary and Comments

Some surprises on this report – mostly that US Corn stocks were 94 Million bu lower than trade estimates at 7.006 Million bushels.  This, coupled with prospective corn acres coming it at the lower range of the trade estimates, has supported the corn price, up 10c at the time of this posting. As expected Soybean… CLICK HERE to Read More

Save the Date: April 1st Haggerty Spring Grower Meeting

2014 April 1st HCL Spring grower meeting Our plan is to touch on what you need to know for this spring: –  Update on fluency agents – required for 2014 crops –  Update on our recommendations for roundup resistant weed control – including fleabane –  For those who are interested, Chuck is going to spend… CLICK HERE to Read More

March 10th USDA Report

The report was generally considered to be bearish but the big surprise was the error in the soybean exports (initially reported as 55 million but corrected to 36 million bushels. Soybeans led the downward trend that said we are seeing a slight comeback this morning. Trade is talking bearish for March 31st USDA report on… CLICK HERE to Read More