09/17/24 Kick The Dust Up

Below you will find today’s instalment of Moring Market Talk.   Grains Quiet… For Now   You can copy and paste the link below to take you to this morning’s episode.   https://youtu.be/8tzuEqXTWZs?si=eTtMpcXzZb70rBBv   On the Grains   Good Tuesday morning everybody, yesterday we got the weekly crop progress numbers from our “somewhat” friendly USDA. Here we go, Corn was up 1% at 65% G/E vs. 51% LY. While it’s hard to imagine that sitting here in Minnesota, a 1% increase isn’t much to dispute either way. A client called in yesterday from Illinois and reported that areas that didn’t spray for fungicide are running 50-80 bpa less than those that did, while he did admit most everyone sprayed so I would expect that to be a small area. Soybeans were off just 1% at 64% G/E vs. 52% LY.   Harvest progress, corn harvest progress came in at 9% this week, that’s up from 5% last week and up slightly over the average of 6%. Soybean harvest was reported at 6% vs the average of 3%. It’s time, let’s roll. For some reason I am more excited this year to see what we have than I have been in…