Grain Prices to be Supported in Short-Term by Weather Woes

While farmers are planting record numbers of crops to compensate for last year’s drought, and to profit from high prices, the grains are getting off to a bad start thanks to the weather. The coldest start ever to the wheat-growing season in Kansas and freezing weather across the southern Great Plains are compounding damage to [...]

Monthly Recap: Corn Prices June

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(July 1 2012) Most of the action in corn futures occurred in the last week of the month as dry weather in the U.S. mid-west caused corn prices to post very aggressive gains.  In the end, corn prices finished June at $6.51 a bushel; corn prices started the month at $5.60. In the last week [...]