Monthly Archives: September 2020

USDA Quarterly Stocks Report Sept 30 2020

The USDA Quarterly Grain Stocks report was released today at 12:00, and it brought some major surprises to the market. Stocks were lowered across the board, coming in underneath average trade estimates by a significant margin. Corn stocks were reported at 1.995 billion bushels; 255 million bushels below the average trade estimate of 2.225 billion… CLICK HERE to Read More

USDA Report Sept 11th, 2020

USDA September 11th, 2020 Recap  Last week the USDA updated their estimates. Traders did a good job with their estimates, and as such there weren’t many surprises to the markets. Corn ending stocks for 20/21 dropped around 250,000 MT. The largest contributing factor to this was storm damage in Iowa, which represented a loss of… CLICK HERE to Read More

Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome

Sudden Death Syndrome in Soybeans Jill Ball & Kris Van Raay Soybean harvest is upon us, and with that, inevitably is the seed ordering season as well.  In our crop scouting, we have been noticing a fair amount of disease damage in our customer’s fields, and trying to prevent this in the future is a… CLICK HERE to Read More

2020 Great Lakes Grain Crop Tour Results

Jill, Ryan, Al and Kris were busy the last couple of weeks checking yields on some of our customers farms (in between rains) as part of the 2020 GLG crop tour.  This is the 10th year that GLG has organized the event. The growing season immediately surrounding Haggerty has been excellent, for the most part. … CLICK HERE to Read More