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Grain Outlook: Conference news unmoving
We will have plenty of corn this year, it’s just a question of the quality and when growers will part with it. Our estimates are that the grower has around 40 percent of old crop corn left to sell and has sold less than 20 percent of new crop.
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Grain Outlook: Keep your eyes on grain quality
Resistance stands at $3.68 1/4 and $3.94. Fundamentals are bearish, but even a bear market will get a bounce now and then.
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Livestock Angles: Weather driving meat markets
The frequent snow storms throughout the country have disrupted both the marketing of live inventories and the retail sales of beef and pork product.
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Grain Angles: Don’t fall into ‘woulda, coulda, shoulda’
With the last vestiges of winter challenging our resolve to embrace the cold, we know that a warm sunny beach sounds pretty nice. Wishful thinking can haunt us in the grain markets as well. With the steady decline that we have seen in the price of grain, we are tempted to fall in the trap of thinking, “woulda, coulda, shoulda.”
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Farm Programs: Time to make to crop insurance decisions for 2010
During the next few weeks, many farmers will be finalizing their crop insurance decisions for the 2010 crop year. March 15 is the deadline to purchase crop insurance for the 2010 crop year. Producers need to analyze how crop insurance fits into their risk management and grain marketing strategies for the coming year.
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Pork Professor: Guide helps producers manage feeding programs
Swine nutrition and feeding management is a complex process. Feed is the largest single item among the costs of producing pork, historically accounting for about two-thirds to three-fourths of total costs in farrow-to-finish or grow-finish systems.
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Grain Outlook: South America on traders’ minds
Growers still hold significant supplies, demand is suspect, outside markets are not supportive, and funds are net long — a recipe to limit rallies, which would probably have to be technically led.
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Grain Outlook: Post-report decline continues
The post-U.S. Department of Agriculture report decline continued last week, with corn futures shedding another 8.25 cents in subdued, winter-doldrums-like trading.
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Livestock Angles: Cattle, hogs under pressure
The past couple of weeks in the livestock markets have seen prices for both cattle and hogs come under pressure, both futures and cash. This despite some inclement weather throughout the entire Midwest which usually is short-term friendly to markets.
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Grain Angles: Consider true cost of storage
Now that we have the grain in the bin and we still feel tired and weary from the long harvest it is tempting to think our risks are well managed. Now we must remain vigilant on monitoring the grain quality in the bin.
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