Market Talk

Grain and livestock markets kicked off the final month of 2025 with a lower day across much of the trade. Is the seasonal low volume holiday trade mindset and winter blues already settling into the commodity markets? John Heinberg with Total Farm Marketing joins us to share perspective on the markets as we kicked off the week and the month of December. Find more online by visiting their website at...

Grain and livestock markets are quietly lower to start the month of December. Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX, joins us to look at Monday's market action.

After the volatility to start the week on Monday, and amid the holiday shortened trading week, cattle futures somehow rallied to a higher weekly close as we finished out the month of November on Friday. Scott Varilek with Kooima Kooima Varilek in Sioux Center, IA joins us to wrap up the week in the livestock and grain markets. Find more at https://www.kkvtrading.com . Also on today's show, we feat...

The Friday after Thanksgiving is usually a quiet market day with a hard open and shortened session of trading. We see grains quiet with more strength in cattle futures to close out the week. Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX, joins us to discuss and wrap up the week of trade.

Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! On today's episode, we look at the strength in grain and cattle futures ahead of the holiday on Wednesday. Mike Zuzolo with Global Commodity Analytics joins us to discuss factors he is watching across wheat, crude oil, corn, soybeans and cattle as we close out the month of November. More at https://www.globalcommresearch.com . On this week's Cattle Chatter, B...

It was another day of pre-holiday trade in grains and oilseeds on Tuesday, with narrow and quiet trading ranges. Meantime, cattle did bounce a little in futures on the day. We discuss the importance of risk management and looking at your plans as we head towards Thanksgiving with Tyler Schau from AgMarket.net. Also, we listen to a conversation from last week's NAFB Convention in Kansas City, MO as...

It is another quiet day in the grain and oilseed markets as more pre-holiday position squaring seems to be at play. Meantime, the cattle market is bouncing a bit after an ugly Monday trade. Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX, joins us to discuss in our Midday Commentary.

The news of Tyson Foods closing it's Lexington, Nebraska plant has been the talk of the cattle industry since Friday afternoon and it was the main driver of a limit down day across live and feeder cattle futures to start the holiday week. Meanwhile, it was quiet pre-holiday trade in the grains and oilseeds on Monday. Kristi Van Ahn-Kjeseth with Van Ahn & Company joins us for analysis on today's sh...

Cattle futures are starting the week locked down the daily limit amid the news of Tyson Foods closing its Lexington, Nebraska facility. Meantime, it is a quiet start to the week in grains. Arlan Suderman with StoneX joins us to discuss in our Midday Commentary for Monday, November 24th, 2025.

We see the grain markets fairly quiet on Friday in a consolidation type of trade while the livestock markets are under pressure amid the removal of tariffs on Brazil and more. Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX, joins us to discuss in our Market Talk Midday Commentary for Friday, November 21st, 2025.

Tuesday seemed to be a consolidation day in the grains and cattle, with a bit of pressure in the lean hog complex. Overall, did traders take a bit of a pause after the volatility of Friday and Monday? Jacob Burks with AgMarket.net joins us for a conversation and look at the markets. Find more online by visiting https://www.agmarket.net . Also, what did the WASDE have to tell us for wheat and cotto...

We have a jam packed show to start the week after the soybean trade led the grains and oilseeds higher on Monday. Brian Splitt from AgMarket joins us for analysis to open the show followed by our Weekly Weather Update with Eric Snodgrass from Nutrien. Then, it's our weekly conversation with John Heinberg from Total Farm Marketing followed by perspective on grains and fertilizer from Mike Castle wi...

We see the grain markets rallying to start the week with soybeans leading the way. Mike Castle, Senior Fertilizer Analyst with StoneX, joins us to discuss the grains and fertilizer markets to start the week.

On Friday, USDA released a ton of data for the markets including the November World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report along with a backlog of daily export sales data that hadn't been reported due to the government shutdown. We saw the grains and oilseeds find pressure post report, closing down double digits in many corn, soybean and wheat futures contracts on the day. Meantime, the l...

After not providing a report in October due to the government shutdown, USDA on Friday returned with a November World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. USDA projected a slight reductions in overall corn production and yield along with overall soybean production an yield. USDA also released a backlog of daily flash sales data at the same time. Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Econom...

Was Thursday's trade as simple as buy grains, sell livestock? We saw good strength in soybeans and corn with heavy pressure in cattle and hog futures on the day while stocks were also under heavy pressure. Bryan Doherty with Total Farm Marketing joins us to discuss the trade action, thoughts ahead of Friday's WASDE report and the impact of data flowing again with the government reopening. Find mor...

We see the grain markets rallying a bit with stocks and livestock under pressure on Thursday. Arlan Suderman from StoneX joins us to discuss market action, government reopening impacts and more in our Midday Commentary.

As traders and farmers gear up for the November WASDE Report release on Friday from USDA, there are many questions as to what this data will look like from the Department of Agriculture. Plus, with the government presumably set to reopen soon, how will all of that back data possibly impact the markets? Mike Zuzolo with Global Commodity Analytics joins us to discuss on today's show. More at https:/...

We see quietly mixed trade action across grains and livestock at midday on Wednesday. Arlan Suderman with StoneX joins us to discuss positioning ahead of Friday's USDA report and potential government reopening this week.

As we celebrate Veterans Day 2025, we thank and honor all of those who served. Grain and livestock markets were open and traded relatively quietly on the day. Tyler Schau with AgMarket.net joins us to take a look at the trade, discuss the upcoming USDA report on Friday and more. Find more online at https://www.agmarket.net . Also on today's show, how has harvest season been wrapping up across the...

Overall, we see quiet market action on Veterans Day with grains near unchanged and livestock mixed. Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX, joins us to discuss in our Market Talk Midday Commentary for Tuesday, November 11th, 2025.

We saw a "risk-on" trade environment to start the week with soybeans leading the grain trade moderately higher and cattle futures trading limit up on Monday. John Heinberg with Total Farm Marketing joins us for analysis and a conversation about Monday's trade action. Find more online by visiting https://www.totalfarmmarketing.com . Many folks across the U.S. and Canada are seeing a shot of arctic...

We see a mostly higher day developing across grain and livestock markets on Monday. Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX, joins us to discuss and share analysis on the early week market action.

Grain markets were quiet to end the week, with some volatility and positivity in the soy complex after EPA announced decisions on small refinery exemptions for the 2021-2024 window. Corn and wheat were quietly lower and cattle found some decent end of the week strength. Let's take a look at the technical picture and talk about managing our risk by looking at the recent chart action with Jim Emter...

We see a fairly mixed grain and livestock trade as we near the weekend on Friday with some support to the upside in soybeans and cattle. Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX, joins us to discuss the markets and share reaction to breaking EPA news about small refinery exemptions.