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Grains Rally a Third Day: Can Wheat Continue to Lead and Force a Bigger Rally in Corn and Beans?
Grains Rally a Third Day: Can Wheat Continue to Lead and Force a Bigger Rally in Corn and Beans?

Grains end higher for a third day on speculative short covering and corrective buying. DuWayne Bosse, Bolt Marketing, says wheat is also putting in risk premium. Can it continue to lead row crops higher?

Farm Aid Ramps Up Mental Health Resources to Help Farmers
Farm Aid Ramps Up Mental Health Resources to Help Farmers

Mental health support services are hard to find in rural areas. Did you know 90 million people live in designated Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas? To further complicate matters, stress among farmers is growing.

Winter Wheat Adding Risk Premium, Supporting Corn and Soybean Prices:  Livestock Try to Extend Gains
Winter Wheat Adding Risk Premium, Supporting Corn and Soybean Prices: Livestock Try to Extend Gains

Grain and livestock futures try to extend gains for a third day. Kent Beadle, Paradigm Futures, says there are several fundamentals driving it but technically markets have also seen strong action.

Government Regulation Hits Rural Landowner As Feds Claim Dry Ditch Is “Waters of US”
Government Regulation Hits Rural Landowner As Feds Claim Dry Ditch Is “Waters of US”

Federal officials say a dry depression on Dan Ward’s Iowa land, 100 miles from a navigable river, is “waters of the United States.”

AgDay Markets Now: Jim McCormick Says Wheat Leads the Grains Monday.  Are the Markets on the Verge of a Breakout?
AgDay Markets Now: Jim McCormick Says Wheat Leads the Grains Monday. Are the Markets on the Verge of a Breakout?

Jim McCormick, AgMarket.Net, says the wheat market is adding risk premium and if it keeps going corn and soybeans could follow producing a sustained fund short covering rally.

Machinery Pete: 33-Year-Old John Deere Fetches High Auction Haul
Machinery Pete: 33-Year-Old John Deere Fetches High Auction Haul

Machinery Pete continues to see higher than average farm equipment resale prices, and he has an idea why that is.

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Blue Line Futures
Does the Cattle Rally Have Legs?

Cattle futures had a strong start to the week following Friday's Cattle on Feed report. Monday's trade took prices back to significant resistance levels, will they hold?

Blue Line Futures
Grain Futures Rallied to Start the Week, Will it Last?

Grain markets were sharply higher in the first trading day of the week, will that strength continue in today's trade or will resistance hold?

Global Farmer Network
A Win for Common Sense and Science

The ideological controversy over glyphosate in Mexico is over for today.

Jon Scheve
Is The US Tight On Corn Or Are Farmers Just Not Selling?

Jon Scheve discusses why basis is increasing across the US and what it will take for corn prices to rally in the next few months.