This Just In…There’s Too Much Damn Corn! Futures Get Trashed

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Corn futures are getting absolutely trashed this morning…along with basically everything else in the commodities sector. July futures are down nearly 8% as I write, as the USDA just reported that corn stocks are up 6% from a month earlier. Obviously the market does not like this supply news, and corn is being heavily discounted […]

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The LA Times reports that corn supplies are tightening, with supply/demand projected to be “upside down” this year: This year’s harvest is expected to yield 11.9 billion bushels, down 155 million from last month’s projection. The decline is due to soggy weather in such corn-producing states as Illinois, where farmers have delayed planting. Total use […]

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Despite record harvests last year, corn and wheat stocks are still sitting near 30-year lows.  Which means, anything short of a bumper crop could send the grains skywards once again. Here are some very cool charts, courtesy of Chris Mayer at DailyWealth, that depict the stocks-to-use ratios of of wheat and corn since 1970, versus […]

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Corn and soybean futures each jumped roughly 5% today after the USDA released its Planting Intentions Report. Some quick highlights from the report reveal that there appears to be plenty of corn and beans coming our way, but cotton will continue to be neglected, as we had anticipated. Corn acreage is down 1% from last […]

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Sugar is quietly staging an impressive rally off its October lows, when it briefly dipped below the 11-cent mark.  Since then, we can see that sugar prices are clearly moving from the “lower left to the upper right,” recently hitting a 5-month high. Is it time to buy sugar?  I think so.  Fundamentally, there are […]

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Gold & Silver Up – Everything Else Continues to Circle the Bowl Gold, silver, and – of course – the US dollar – continued to rally this week. They were about it, as the stock market swooned, commodities got whacked, and every asset class continued to circle the bowl. Stocks have now gone nowhere in […]

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Cotton Futures Hit 2009 Low Cotton futures slumped to a 2009 low on bearish supply/demand news. Cotton’s projected world stocks-to-use ratio hit their highest mark since 2004-2005. We were stopped out of our position at $0.45, and this one hurt – I hate the idea of selling cotton at these prices – BUT, we always […]

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Coffee Perking Up? Long-time readers know that we’ve been quite bullish on coffee for some time in this space. So on Friday, when I received an email from my commodity broker, Robert, about possibly initiating a coffee position, I was extremely intrigued. We wrote this article about coffee for Seeking Alpha last August. Long-term fundamentals […]

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