Improve Your Marketing Skills With Marketmaxx 

by Larry G. Stalcup

Deadline For Signup Is Midnight … May 31, 2008. If you’re not yet playing MarketMaxx – the corn and soybean marketing game that can win you one year’s use of a new Gleaner combine or an AGCO tractor – then go to http://www.MarketMaxx.net now and get signed up today...

Corn Planting Tops Halfway Point  

By Richard Brock

U.S. corn planting surpassed the halfway market last week as drier weather conditions allowed strong planting progress across most of the main Corn Belt, but cool weather limited crop emergence...

Late-Planted Corn 

University of Illinois

Corn is responsible for most of the uncertainty in the market, and much of that is associated with the U.S. situation, said a University of Illinois Extension marketing specialist...

Three Pricing Alternatives For Farmers 

Source: Purdue University

Grain buyers and elevators, like producers, can’t afford to take all the risk and some have stopped offering cash-forward contracts to price new-crop corn, soybeans and wheat...

March 31 Crop Report 

By Kent Thiesse

On March 31, 2008, USDA released its Prospective Plantings and Quarterly Grain Stocks reports. This was one of the most anticipated USDA reports ever, due to the strong grain prices in recent months...

Grain Marketing Book 

Grain Marketing is Simple (it's just not easy), is a new book written by Edward Usset, Grain Marketing Specialist, University of Minnesota Center for...