This has led to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow shipping channel through which roughly 25% of the global trade in nitrogen passes. Farmers who have not already purchased their nitrogen ...

The good news is that crop prices, even though they are low historically, are higher today than they were a decade ago,” he ...

USDA’s record 16.7 billion bushel corn crop estimate in the August WASDE is raising concern among farmers and farm groups — including the National Corn Growers Association. They’re questioning the ...

Crop prices in Southeast Missouri have risen far more slowly than machinery, seed, labor, fertilizer and land costs, squeezing margins for corn, soybean and rice farmers.

Could corn go lower than $4? The key for ’26 is corn acres, Langemeier said. “If it gets above 95 million acres again, and we have a good crop, it will pressure stocks even more.

The March 10 USDA World Supply and Demand Estimates report did not include any significant changes from other recent WASDE reports. The 2025-26 ending stocks in the March WASDE report for corn, ...

Market corn prices are more than $2 lower per bushel than a year ago, so row crop producers in Mississippi are planning to plant less corn and more cotton in 2024. Growers of the state’s three ...

Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group, says the recent strength in the corn market is not a result of the Iran war or ...

U.S. corn set a record sales pace in mid-September, but farmers are still losing money on each bushel. The government shutdown, which began Oct. 1, means a lot of market data isn’t being updated, said ...

Late in 2023, the 2018 Farm Bill was extended for one year, extending the expiration of the current farm bill until Sept. 30, 2024. This also meant that the provisions and parameters that existed for ...

Corn prices have dropped below $4 a bushel to their lowest levels in nearly four years on ample U.S. supplies, but their “shared history” with U.S. crude oil may offer the biggest clue on what they do ...

I concluded my January 16 Barchart quarterly report on the grain and oilseed markets with the following: Global population growth increases the demand side of grain and oilseed fundamental equations, ...