Fundamentally Speaking

Percent above or below the average June-August total precipitation this past summer vs. the difference in degrees Fahrenheit from the average 1950-2019 June-August temperature

U.S. share of the three largest commodities -- corn, soybeans and wheat -- exported by volume.

August price action of December corn, November soybeans and December Kansas City wheat in dollars per bushel since 1995.

China leads soybean world sales.

China Soybean World Share Analysis

End of August corn conditions vs. the percent that the final U.S. corn yield deviated from the 30-year trend.

Using a simple regression of end of July U.S. crop ratings and the percent that the national yield deviated from the 30-year trend comes up with a figure close to the USDA number of 169.5 bushels per acre.

End of July soybean crop conditions for the top 18 producing states and the U.S. from 1986 to 2019

Soybean conditions and percent of beans setting pods as of 7/28

U.S. corn crop rating and percent of crop silking as of July 21 vs percent final U.S. corn yield deviated from the 1986-2018 trend

Amount of moisture the top 21 corn and soybean producing states received the first half of calendar year

Cumulative export sales and shipments of U.S. wheat as of the second week of July from the start of the marketing year June 1 vs. sales and shipments as a percent of the July WASDE export projection

Sales and exports as a % of July WASDE export projection lowest in 14 years; U.S. soybean sales as % of world trade at 25-year low

Amount of new crop U.S. corn sales on the books as of the first week in July for the marketing year starting September 1

Days after May 1 that 50% of the U.S. soybean crop has emerged, 50% of the U.S. soybean crop is blooming and 50% of the crop is dropping leaves

Initial USDA weekly crop ratings for soybeans compared to the percent that final U.S. soybean yield deviated from the 25-year trend

Change in planted acreage for U.S. corn and soybeans from the end of March Prospective Plantings report to the June Acreage numbers vs. percent of corn planted by May 19 and the percent of the nation's soybean crop seeded two weeks later on June 2.

End of May Palmer Drought Severity indices for the end of May 1993 and end of May 2019 for the top 21 corn and soybean producing states

Cumulative precipitation for the first five months of the year for the top 21 corn and soybean growing states

Days after May 1 that 50% of the U.S. corn crop has emerged, the number of days after May 1 that 50% of the U.S. corn crop is in the silking stage and the number of days after May 1 that 50% of the crop is mature.