If a lot of farmers stop planting soybeans and plant corn instead, what s going to happen? There will be more corn and fewer soybeans. What if too much corn floods the market and corn prices drop? What will happen to soybean prices if there is less supply? As a farmer, I can play the trend (plant corn), play the counter trend (plant soybeans), or hedge my bets and plant both. In the same way, it may be the companies that produce the genetically modified seed that prosper from the ethanol craze.

It is doubtful that exports will increase soon given last week's price action, but if Ukraine and Russia truly do have small crops and China and India remain dry, the demand will develop eventually. Additionally, monthly Supply and Demand estimates projected world wheat ending stocks to be the lowest in nearly 30 years due to drought in the Ukraine and Russia. Corn Corn markets managed to break out of a three month trading range following strengthening concerns about a droughty eastern...

weather and crop conditions continue to affect corn and soybean prices, but the June 29 release of the USDA's Acreage and Grain Stocks reports will provide additional fundamental information for these markets, said Darrel Good in his weekly outlook. Those estimates suggest that soybean exports during the March-May quarter totaled about 210 million bushels, he said. Use in that category is calculated after the estimate of stocks at the end of the quarter is available, and use for the...

According to SOPA, the total soymeal exports in the first two months of the current fiscal also slipped to 3.53 lakh tonnes from 5.92 lakh tonnes during the corresponding period last year. Be the first to post an opinion on this article. INDORE: Soybean meal exports from India declined by over 45 per cent to 1.21 lakh tonnes in May as against 2.24 lakh tonnes during the same month last year, an industry body said on Monday. Hotel stay@ affordable prices. Interestingly, shipment to Vietnam...

Jeff Kazin, general manager of extraction technology at Renessen, says his company is working on recovering the corn oil before it heads to fermentation. However, many ethanol plants are planning to change their processing to remove the corn oil either before or after the fermentation process. This would allow corn oil to be used for biodiesel production and change the nutritional value of the distillers grains (DDGs) produced by ethanol plants. Traditionally in the biofuels industry, corn...

Bears awoke to the smell of Coffee this morning, as prices plunged due to ideal harvest conditions in Brazil, weaker London Coffee prices, and speculative long liquidation. Soybean futures rebounded to start the week, as stronger than expected exports and technically oversold conditions had traders in a buying mood. Large and small speculators were net-long over 17,000 coffee contracts as of the most recent Commitment of Traders report, and much of today's declines were attributed to...

Around the state, corn planting progress jumped to 76 percent complete, increasing 38 percentage points from last week, according to the weekly Wisconsin Crop Progress report issued Monday afternoon by the Wisconsin field office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service. Fair weather helps area farmers seed fields sooner this year Areas of southern Wisconsin already showing signs of growth. Around the state, corn planting progress jumped to 76 percent complete, increasing 38...

Soybean futures increased and grain futures finished lower Monday. LJWorld.com doesn't necessarily condone the comments here, nor does it review every post. On the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, August live cattle fell. As of Monday s close, courtesy of Ottawa Cooperative Association. Ottawa Elevator Wheat, $5. Edgerton Elevator Wheat, $5. Overbrook Elevator Wheat, $5. Lawrence South Elevator Wheat, $5. Spot nonferrous metal prices Mon.

No, this is for the troubled souls for whom the first half has meant nausea, aggravation and numbers that often defy understanding. This is for the downtrodden teams who will celebrate the coming holiday with grilled disappointment and a couple of scoops of homemade frustration. How can one explain, for example, the Chicago White Sox? Barely 20 months removed from a World Series championship, they now flirt with last place, with the worst team batting average in the game scoring 43 runs...