
They grow up so fast!
When each week of the corn growing season is smooshed together in this timelapse video, it only takes a minute and a half to go from seedling to combine. #corn #harvest

Unraveling Corn's Seasonal Highs
Sell your grain at the seasonal high in the spring. That's good advice, especially in normal marketing years with normal weather, normal demand, and normal influence from normal outside markets. Unfortunately, even if such a year ever presents itself, we still won't be able to predict the exact future date on which the markets will hit their annual high. Predicting that date, or even predicting the seasonal pattern of prices, has only grown more challenging in the last severa

How Many Days Until We Run Out
There have been some excitingly bearish headlines in the energy sector lately. "Oil Prices Sink to Lowest Since 2009;" "Record Crude Oil Inventory Drags Crude Prices;" "Brent Below $40 as Resource Rout Deepens;" "EIA Cuts 2015, 2016 Crude Oil Price Views." These are especially compelling to us grain market analysts who would otherwise spend the week flailing about for something interesting to say about corn, soybeans, or wheat fundamentals. Even with monthly World Agricultura
Corn Growing Time Lapse
Little time lapse video I made of one of my baby corn plants in the middle of June. I thought it would be much more dramatic than this. #corn #farm #performanceart