We closed out the week of market trade with mixed action in grains on Friday as soybeans bounced a bit to end the week. Livestock trade found more decent support with cattle leading ahead of the cattle on feed report. The dollar surged again and it was a wild week in the dairy markets. Naomi Blohm from Total Farm Marketing joins us to discuss the week in the markets and managing your risk ahead of the holiday season in this episode. More at https://www.totalfarmmarketing.com.

It was a fairly quiet end of the week in what has been a news headline driven market trade in grains all week long. We take a broad look at the grain and livestock markets, the overall ag economy, whether or not the market is trying to buy more corn acres in 2025 and much more with Chad Hart, Economist at Iowa State University, on today's program. Also, we head back to the 2024 NAFB Convention and hear from Brevant Retail Sales Agronomist Tyler Stastny from Nebraska on how harvest wrapped up and thoughts looking ahead to 2025.

It's a quiet day in the markets overall on Friday with row crops mixed to higher, wheat under pressure, crude oil higher and livestock trading higher as well. We discuss the end of the week trade action with Arlan Suderman from StoneX.

Cattle trade was mixed to higher in feeders on Thursday as we start to square up positions ahead of Friday's cattle on feed numbers. Can the bullishness continue in cattle or could the bottom fall out soon? We discuss that and the overall news driving the grain markets this week with Brady Huck from Advance Trading! Learn more online at https://www.advance-trading.com and check them out on YouTube:  @AdvanceTradingInc  We also hear conversations from the NAFB Convention on today's show including Dr. Lisa Becton of the Swine Health Information Center in Segment One and Francie Tolle, Deputy Administrator for Compliance with the Risk Management Agency in Segment Two of today's show.

Grain markets are lower with soy the downside leader while livestock trade is mixed. We talk commodities and outside market action with Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX, in our Midday Commentary.

Do the newly announced Brazil/China agreements on various agriculture products mean much for our markets? Will we see more impacts on wheat, currencies and more amid the escalation of tensions between Russia and Ukraine? And what is going on with feeders leading the cattle market? Mike Zuzolo from Global Commodity Analytics joins us to break all of this down and more on today's show. More at https://www.globalcommresearch.com.

Corn and wheat are firm at midday with soybeans under pressure and livestock mixed. We discuss the impacts of Russia/Ukraine escalations on wheat, China/Brazil agreement potential on soy and more with Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX.

Wheat finished off session highs with soy under pressure and corn stuck in the middle. A lack of fresh news, outside of the Russia/Ukraine war, seemed to be the biggest catalyst in Tuesday's trade action. Meanwhile, cattle futures continued to find strong support in both the live and feeder cattle complexes. We talk markets today with Tyler Schau from AgMarket.net. Find more on their website at https://www.agmarket.net. Also on today's show, we talk about a new standard in genetics and trait leadership with Brevant seeds. Travis Belt, Portfolio and technology lead for Brevant, joins us for a conversation. Contact your local retailer or visit https://www.brevant.com for more.

More war risk premium being added to wheat on Tuesday while corn and soybeans are mixed. Cattle futures are seeing more continued support as well early in the week. We talk markets with Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX.

Wheat is the upside leader on Monday with strength in row crops and livestock as well. We talk markets to kick off the week with Arlan Suderman from StoneX.

The wheat markets saw double digit gains on Monday as traders seemingly reacted to the weekend news of the Biden administration giving the go-ahead for use of missiles into Russia. Corn and soybeans took advantage and found support as well along with livestock. Brazil has also announced that they will be sharing "agreements in agriculture" with China on Wednesday. We discuss all of these items and more with John Heinberg from Total Farm Marketing. More online at https://www.totalfarmmarketing.com. We see a wide area of rain and even some snow impacting the Plains and Midwest to start this week. Also, could soil temps finally be reaching the point where we can have good fall application in some areas? Eric Snodgrass with Conduit joins us for more. Find more at https://www.ag-wx.com.

Grains found a bounce on Friday with soybeans and soybean oil leading the way to the upside. Meantime, feeder cattle saw a nice surge with hogs under pressure to end the week. We talk markets with Mike Minor from Professional Ag Marketing on today's show. Plus, we close our our week at the NAFB Convention and have conversations with Corey Rosenbusch from The Fertilizer Institute, Mike Seyfert from the National Grain & Feed Association and Lance Ruppert from Growmark during our final day in Kansas City.

Grains and oilseeds were higher at midday with a little bit of bargain buying it seemed to close out a tough week. Livestock action was mixed with cattle higher and hogs lower. We talk markets to close out the week with Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX.

We continued the trend downward in grains on the day Thursday with more pressure in wheat, soybeans and corn as the U.S. dollar continues to surge, hitting fresh one year highs on the day. Livestock also saw pressure on Thursday in risk-off trade. We talk markets with Bryan Doherty from Total Farm Marketing as we close out Thursday's session. Find more on their website at https://www.totalfarmmarketing.com. Also, we are joined on site in Kansas City for a conversation on the markets with Mike Castle from StoneX. Plus, we talk fertilizer markets with Josh Linville of StoneX and propane with Mike Newland from the Propane Education & Research Council.

We saw more pressure in grains on Wednesday with a mixed day in the livestock trade as well. Mike Zuzolo with Global Commodity Analytics joins us to run through some of the macro factors and fundamentals that is seemingly driving these markets post election, post WASDE and more. Find more online at https://www.globalcommresearch.com.

Wheat and the soy complex were under pressure on Tuesday while corn was firm to slightly lower. We talk more fallout from last week's events in the markets, risk management ideas and more with Jacob Burks from AgMarket.net on today's show. Find more online at https://www.agmarket.net.

Wheat, soybeans and soybean oil were under heavy pressure at midday on Tuesday while corn was firm and livestock was higher. We talk market action with Arlan Suderman from StoneX.

Grain markets started the week mostly lower as wheat and soybeans turned into the downside leaders amid a higher U.S. dollar index and favorable South American weather. It was a mixed bag in livestock and outside markets as well with a quiet news day on Veterans Day. We walk through the early week trade action and talk markets with John Heinberg from Total Farm Marketing. Learn more online by visiting their website at https://www.totalfarmmarketing.com. As we start the week, it's a mostly quiet and dry pattern after we saw some beneficial moisture last week/weekend in many areas. We discuss the upcoming pattern for the U.S. and South America with Eric Snodgrass in our Weekly Weather Update. Find more at https://www.ag-wx.com.

Grains were showing pressure at midday with mixed outside markets and livestock mixed to higher. We talk through the early week market action in our Midday Commentary with Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX.

We closed out a busy week of trade on Friday with the November WASDE report from USDA, which included a cut to both U.S. corn and soybean yield projections. As the dust settled on the week, grains finished firm while livestock trade was under some pressure. DuWayne Bosse from Bolt Marketing joins us from his tractor cab to wrap up the week and provide market perspective and analysis. More at https://www.boltmarketingllc.com.

USDA lowered average U.S. corn and soybean yields in the November WASDE report along with some changes to the overall U.S. and World balance sheets. We recap the latest WASDE report and talk markets with Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX.

We saw soybean oil and soybeans surge higher on Thursday amid strong world vegetable oil/palm oil values once again. Meantime, corn was firm, wheat was lower and livestock was mixed. We talk export sales, the Fed rate cut, chart action post election and much more with Bryan Doherty from Total Farm Marketing on today's show. Find more at https://www.totalfarmmarketing.com. Also, in Segment Two, we talk about maximizing harvest efficiency with O-Grates: the game changer in grain loss management from Bushel Plus. Jared Hitchins, Technical Sales Manager (U.S.) for Bushel Plus joins us for a conversation. Find more online at https://www.bushelplus.com.

Soybean oil and soybeans were trading sharply higher at midday on Thursday while the rest of the markets were quietly firm to lower. We discuss the markets with Ryan Moe from StoneX in our Midday Commentary for Thursday, November 7th, 2024.

Post Election Day trade in the U.S. resulted in a sharply higher dollar, stock market and a firm to higher grain and livestock trade when it was all said and done. What does the victory for President Donald Trump mean for the markets, demand and more moving forward? We dive in to that and get analysis today from Mike Zuzolo with Global Commodity Analytics. Find more analysis online as well at https://www.globalcommresearch.com.

We have many of the results of the 2024 U.S. Election, including a return to the White House for Donald Trump. Markets have been reacting sharply to that result. We discuss the market movement post election with Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX.

It's Election Day 2024 and we have a slam-packed program for you today. We sit down for a conversation with Jim McCormick from AgMarket.net for perspective on price action amid a ton of events with market implications all week long. Elections, the Fed meeting, a crop report on Friday and much more are all points of emphasis this week. Find more as well and sign up for their conference at https://www.agmarket.net. Plus, we are broadcasting live from theMoving Iron Summit in Nashville, TN today. We talk markets on location with Shawn Hackett from Hackett Financial Advisors, Tanner Ehmke from CoBank and Chip Nellinger from Blue Reef Agri-Marketing. 

It's Election Day 2024 and the markets seem to be treading water until we get the results. We discuss grain, macro and livestock market action with Arlan Suderman from StoneX.

Grains were mostly firm on Monday, with soybeans off their session highs once again. Meantime, livestock trade found a little bit of pressure across the board. It's a busy week ahead for the markets with Election Day, FOMC meeting, a WASDE report and more. John Heinberg from Total Farm Marketing joins us on the show to discuss the charts, market moving factors to consider and whether or not some grain needs to move as harvest closes out and storage fills up. More at https://www.totalfarmmarketing.com. We've been finding some beneficial rains across portions of the Plains and Midwest the last several days and there is more on the way. What do we make of an apparent pattern shift moving into November? Does this mean drought relief all month long? Eric Snodgrass with Nutrien Ag Solutions joins us for our Weekly Weather Update. More can be found online at https://www.ag-wx.com.

Markets are mixed to higher in grains at midday while livestock is under pressure. We look at market action and discuss the busy week ahead with Elections, FOMC meeting and more with Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX.

As we closed out the week of trade on Friday, we ended up with a mixed bag after starting the day very strong. Corn ended up being one of the big winners on the day as the soy complex finished well off session highs. We got a very interesting jobs report on Friday and we saw a livestock trade that was mixed to higher to close out the week. Ted Seifried with Zaner Ag Hedge joins us for analysis and makes his case for being friendly the corn market moving into the month of November. More at https://www.zaner.com.

We started the day strong in grains and oilseeds, led by soybean oil and soybeans, but we are now starting to pull back well off our session highs. Mike Castle with StoneX joins us to discuss the grain market action, fertilizer news and an interesting jobs report out on Friday morning as well.

As we closed out the month of October on Thursday, it was a very quiet trading day across grains and livestock. Nothing spooky about it......grains were fairly rangebound and livestock was mixed. We discuss the end of the month market action and get perspective from Bryan Doherty of Total Farm Marketing. Find more online at https://www.totalfarmmarketing.com. Also during Segment Two, we hear a bit of a recent agronomic conversation with AgriGold's Josh Johnston as he goes through some key things for farmers to consider as we wrap up harvest. View the full conversation on our YouTube channel by visiting https://www.youtube.com/@markettalkag  

A pretty quiet market trade at midday on Thursday, we discuss action in grains, livestock and the outside markets on Halloween with Arlan Suderman from StoneX.

With Election Day less than a week away in the U.S. and plenty of interesting dynamics at play in the currency and commodity markets, we sit down and examine some key charts and trends to watch. Mike Zuzolo with Global Commodity Analytics joins us for analysis of the grains, livestock and currency markets at midweek. More can be found at https://www.globalcommresearch.com.

Soybeans and soybean oil are higher on Wednesday with corn and wheat firm, hogs higher again and cattle leaking lower. We talk grains, livestock and the latest economic data with Arlan Suderman from StoneX in our Midday Commentary.

Wheat markets were higher amid a poor winter wheat crop rating while corn and soybeans were a mixed bag on Tuesday. Meantime, the lean hog market continues to push higher while cattle traded lower on the day. We talk markets today on the show with Jacob Burks from AgMarket.net. Make sure to check out their website as well to sign up for their conference in Nashville, TN early next year. Go to https://www.agmarket.net for more information.

Wheat markets were trading higher at midday while row crops and livestock were mixed. We discuss the trade action with Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist with StoneX.

Crude oil saw a drop around 4% on Monday as traders took war premium out of that market. That drop seemed to weigh on grains and oilseeds to start the week, among other factors, as soybeans, soy products, wheat and corn were all in the red. Meanwhile, cattle and hogs found some mild support. We talk markets with John Heinberg from Total Farm Marketing. Find more at https://www.totalfarmmarketing.com. It appears the weather pattern is setting up to finally bring some much needed moisture to the Midwest as we enter into November. However, it doesn't appear to be a major drought buster across the whole of the Plains and Corn Belt. Eric Snodgrass with Nutrien Ag Solutions joins us to discuss in our Weekly Weather Update. Find more online at https://www.ag-wx.com.

Crude oil is sharply lower to start the week which seems to be pushing grains and oilseeds into the red as well. We discuss energy markets, grains and livestock with Arlan Suderman from StoneX in our Midday Commentary.

Markets on Friday were mostly lower in grains into the weekend as harvest pressure, profit taking, reluctant farmer selling and much more weighed on corn, soybeans and wheat. We discuss the trends in the grain and livestock markets today with Bryan Irey from Crossroads Coop. More at https://www.crossroadscoop.com. We are also joined by Alex Case, Brevant Retail Sales Agronomist for Indiana, to discuss high performance in the field and to learn how Brevant products are performing this season. Find more details online at https://www.brevant.com.

Grain markets are drifting lower into the weekend it appears as harvest looks to wrap up across much of the Midwest. Meantime, livestock trade is a mixed bag as well ahead of the close. We discuss markets with Arlan Suderman from StoneX.

We saw corn and soybean markets start the day solidly higher but finished off session highs by the close, even amid strong export sales numbers. Did farmer selling put a lid on some of this week's grain rally? We discuss and look at the technical picture with Bryan Doherty from Total Farm Marketing on today's show. More at https://www.totalfarmmarketing.com. Also on today's show, we discuss the export pace amid uncertainty with the U.S. elections, South American weather and much more. Craig Turner with StoneX joins us for market analysis as we near the end of harvest and the month of October. You can also sign up for his upcoming webinar, the day after the election on November 6th, by visiting the website https://www.grainsandoilseeds.com.

It's a mixed bag of markets on Thursday as it appears some farmer selling might be capping the rally in grains amid more robust export demand. We discuss grains, macros and livestock with Arlan Suderman from StoneX in our Midday Commentary.

With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, one has to wonder if that is adding volatility to the markets? Stocks were down sharply in Wednesday afternoon trade while corn and soybeans finished slightly higher amid good export demand. We discuss cross currents in the trade, dive into cattle markets and more with Mike Zuzolo from Global Commodity Analytics. More online at https://www.globalcommresearch.com.

Market action was quietly higher in corn and soybeans at midday with mixed action elsewhere. We discuss grain and livestock trade on Wednesday with Arlan Suderman from StoneX.

It was a solid day higher across grains, energies, metals and livestock on Tuesday. However, producers might want to take note that we are nearing some key decisions on basis contracts in grains. We discuss the current corn and soybean spreads, options expiration, chart action, exports and more with Brian Splitt from AgMarket.net on today's show. More at https://www.agmarket.net.

Positive money flow is being seen across commodities and livestock on Tuesday. We discuss what's driving the trade action with Arlan Suderman from StoneX in our Midday Commentary.

We kicked off the week on Monday with some decent strength in corn and soybeans amid more export sales and continued wide-open harvest weather in the U.S. this week. Meantime, should we be thinking about hedging in cattle before the bottom falls out? All topics we discuss today with John Heinberg from Total Farm Marketing. More can be found online at https://www.totalfarmmarketing.com. Dry conditions continue to persist across the Plains and Midwest as we head towards the end of October. That is good for a wide open harvest but not good for soil moisture as the drought monitor continues to expand. We get an update on the weather and if we could see a pattern shift in the coming weeks or not. Eric Snodgrass with Nutrien Ag Solutions joins us for our Weekly Weather Update. More at https://www.ag-wx.com.