FREIGHT RATES WEAKEN 

Ocean freight rates have reached one-year lows due to Chinese restrictions on iron-ore imports and a seasonal summer lull in the shipping market. The...

Sell Grain Year-Round 

By Larry Stalcup

Nearly every year, pulling the trigger on corn and soybean sales long before harvest will yield better prices than when combines are rolling. You can...

FIGURE FORWARD Selling Tactics 

By Larry Stalcup

Marketing 2003 soybeans has been a tough call for Dave Peckenpaugh, Randy Hervert and other growers. Hervert managed to maintain his sanity by getting...

CHECK Your New-Crop Bids 

By Alan Kluis

The last USDA Supply-Demand Report projects U.S. ending stocks to drop to just 120 million bushels This would be the tightest U.S. ending stocks number...

Brock Online Notes 

Richard Brock

U.S. Could Ease Canadian Beef Ban Soon

The U.S. and Canadian governments may begin talks to partially lift a U.S. ban on Canadian beef in about a week if no new cases of mad cow disease are found in Canada, a Canadian official told Reuters News Service on Wednesday....

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Richard Brock

Brazil Soy Output Seen Up 10-20 Percent

Poor corn prices could prompt Brazilian producers to expand soybean plantings significantly again in 2003-2004, leading to a production increase of as much as 10 million metric tons or 20%, Brazilian analysts told Reuters News Service....

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Canada Confirms Mad Cow Case Canadian officials confirmed Tuesday afternoon that they had discovered one "isolated" case of mad cow disease in that country. The news prompted the USDA to declare an immediate halt to all imports of Canadian cattle into the U.S....

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Richard Brock

Iraq Needs Vegoil And Pulses, Not Wheat

The United States will not donate any further wheat or rice to Iraq, as the country has sufficient supplies for the foreseeable future, the U.S. advisor on Iraq agriculture recently said....

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Richard Brock

USDA: No Need To Bar Brazilian Soy

The USDA sees no need to bar Brazilian soybeans from entering the United States to prevent the spread of the Asian soybean rust fungus, a USDA official told Reuters News Service recently....

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Richard Brock

Feed Group To Import Corn, Wheat, Meal

Southeastern feed buying consortium, Wilmington Bulk LLC, expects to close deals within a few days to import corn, feed wheat and soymeal from South America and Europe....