Monday, November 2, 2009
Though radar showed some light showers early on this Monday over southern Wisconsin, northern Illinois and central Nebraska, the weather for this week all across the Nation’s midsection still looks to be far different than what we had in October…which means that it is going to be a whole lot drier. Weather [...]
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Weather and Market Commentary- November 2, 2009
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Weather and Market Commentary- October 22, 2009
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Rain was starting to work its way east of the Mississippi River early on this Thursday, with extensive rain still falling further west across large parts of Nebraska (actually falling as snow in western parts of the state), Iowa, Missouri, eastern Kansas, Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma, and eastern Texas. In the Corn Belt, [...]
Weather and Market Commentary- October 21, 2009
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
If one were to draw a line from near Wichita to south of Kansas City to north of St. Louis to Peoria to south of Chicago and then eastward along the Indiana/Michigan and Indiana/Ohio borders, the harvest has largely shut down once again to the north of that line given rains that have [...]
Weather and Market Commentary- October 20, 2009
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
As expected we saw the weekly crop progress numbers show that this year’s corn and soybean harvests are progressing a record-slow pace. The soybean harvest was 30 percent complete nationally as of this past Sunday, which would be the least amount done for that date in at least the past 30 years [...]
Weather and Market Commentary- October 9, 2009
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Friday, October 9, 2009
Results of the October USDA crop report will certainly dominant “trade talk” today in the corn and soybean markets, but once those numbers are discounted the markets will still have to consider weather concerns. Flash flood warnings were posted early today for much of southwestern Missouri, northwestern Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma, and a [...]
Weather and Market Commentary- October 8, 2009
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Flood and flash flood watches are currently posted for the southeastern Plains through much of the Ohio River Valley, while freeze warnings were posted across the northern Plains. Based on that sentence alone, one can surmise that wet and cold weather continues to dominant the near-term forecast for the Nation’s midsection. Better [...]
Weather and Market Commentary- October 7, 2009
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Early Thursday will find extensive rainfall from the southern Plains through Missouri, and that will mark the start of about a two-day stretch of very wet weather for a significant part of the Nation’s midsection. The eastern Plains and southeastern Corn Belt will be hit very hard with heavy rain for tomorrow [...]
Weather and Market Commentary- October 6, 2009
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
A lot of progress was made in harvesting soybeans last week in Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota that allowed the national soybean harvest to jump ten points to 15 percent complete. However, that is still 13 percentage points behind last year, 21 percentage points behind the five-year average…and there are [...]
The World Dairy Expo Kicks Off Today
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The 2009 World Dairy Expo kicks off today in Madison, Wisconsin. According to the show’s website, more than 68,000 dairy industry enthusiasts will make the trip to this year’s event.
The World Dairy Expo not only gives attendees the chance to see the most modern equipment in dairy today, but it also allows people involved in [...]
Final Day of Farm Science Review
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The sun is shining on the final morning of Farm Science Review. Crowds are making their way into the gates early this morning and stopping by the Fastline booth to make sure they don’t miss out on the latest editions of Fastline. If you are going to be attending the show, make sure you stop [...]
