The May USDA Oil Crops Outlook predicts a canola yield improvement this year of 73 pounds per acre. Based on an estimated 2.27 million acres planted and 2.19 million harvested, this is expected to result in a 4-billion-pound crop, which would be an increase of 200 million pounds from last ye…

As producers continue to play catch-up in terms of getting this year’s durum crop in the ground, the durum market remains stable, which is actually good news.

The World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports released by USDA earlier in May were important in that they gave the market its first look at global production, supply, and demand forecasts for the 2023-24 marketing year for several crops, including sunflower. But that’s n…

Wheat producers were happy in mid-May as they made good planting progress after a slow start and prices moved higher. Toward the latter half of the month, they were still making good headway in regard to planting, but prices began to slip.

With a difficult start to planting coupled with the cancellations of recent U.S. corn sales and more corn being sourced out of Brazil, the corn market is looking at a tale of two markets – one for old crop and one for new crop.