USDA's set of January reports is set for Friday, Jan. 12. My usual comment on this particular set of numbers is that it's the Super Bowl, Daytona 500 and Kentucky Derby all rolled into one. It has the hype of the Super Bowl and the noise of the Daytona 500, and has come...

As I write this column in early December, we don't know the final outcome of tax reform. We have a House version and Senate bill with significant differences, and no guarantee that passage will occur, much less how the two versions will be reconciled. If this legislation does...

Comments about the large size of the U.S. corn crop have eased from the first round of reaction last fall, but there are still questions of "How did that happen?" That's no surprise; after all, there's a huge pile of grain now to work through.