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Have Grain Markets Peaked?
| By Richard Brock
Odds are high that both soybeans and wheat have established the highest price levels they're going to trade at for quite some time. Corn has likely made... More
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Have Grain Markets Peaked?
Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM | By Richard Brock
Odds are high that both soybeans and wheat have established the highest price levels they're going to trade at for quite some time. Corn has likely made... More
Marketing with Multiples
Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM | By Larry Stalcup
If you can't live with $5.80 corn or $15 soybeans, don't use this strategy. That's not a warning from Gary Hinz, just advice to growers considering the... More
Market Tips
Seven Reasons Businesses Fail
Jul 3, 2007 10:30 AM
Steve Abercrombie is a lecturer at the Louisiana State University Graduate School of Banking who teaches a course on Advisory Banking. The following are Steve’s thoughts on why businesses fail based upon the many thousands of businesses he and his firm work with annually... More
Market News
Feb 27, 2007 5:08 PM | Richard Brock
Mexico Seeks To Boost Corn Output
Mexico’s government has announced detailed plans for increasing total national corn production by 43% to 30 million metric tons in order to... More
Trade
Trade Sees Larger Corn, Soy Crops
Sep 11, 2007 2:26 PM | By Richard Brock
The grain trade expects USDA to report larger U.S. corn and soybean crops when it releases its second survey estimate of 2007 production on Wednesday morning... More
U.S. Ag Trade Update – State Exports
Jul 3, 2007 11:01 AM | Source: USDA-ERS
U.S. agricultural exports reached a record in fiscal 2006 at $68.7 billion, some $6.2 billion higher than the record set in fiscal 2005. California, Iowa, Texas and Illinois continued their reign as top exporting states... More
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Farmland Values Rise 8.8%
Aug 6, 2008 1:22 PM
High crop prices and low interest rates helped push the average value of U.S. farm real estate to ... More
Crop Ratings Improve Further
Jul 30, 2008 9:58 AM
U.S. corn and soybean conditions improved a bit further last week as most of the Midwest growing belt continued to ... More
