Corn 1 higher. Soybeans 3 1/4 lower. Chicago wheat 1/2 higher. Futures for the hard wheat varieties and most other commodities are also higher.

Corn 1 higher. Soybeans 3 3/4 higher. Chicago wheat 1 3/4 higher. Futures for the hard wheat varieties and most other commodities are also higher.

Corn 1 3/4 higher. Soybeans 3 1/4 higher. Chicago wheat 2 higher. Futures for the hard wheat varieties and most other commodities are also higher.

In a low-volatility grain market environment, prices on any one day can seem just as unappealing as the next, making it hard to get motivated to make timely sales. Perhaps there is a best time of day or best day of the week to...

Corn 1 1/4 lower. Soybeans 3 lower. Chicago wheat 1/2 lower. Futures for the hard wheat varieties and most other commodities are also lower.

Corn 2 higher. Soybeans 1 3/4 higher. Chicago wheat 3 higher. Futures for the hard wheat varieties and most other commodities are also higher.

A close evaluation of how information passed through the panicky wheat market last week provides a lesson about how grain markets signal their intentions when reacting to weather concerns -- a lesson that corn and soybean...

According to an ancient Latin proverb, "The farmer reaps with the plow." As important as planting date may be to an individual field's yield prospects, the U.S. corn and soybean futures markets seem largely unconcerned with...

Corn 2 lower. Soybeans 4 1/2 lower. Chicago Wheat 2 1/4 lower. Futures for the hard wheat varieties are stronger.

Corn 1/2 lower. Soybeans 3 3/4 higher. Wheat 2 1/2 lower. Futures for the hard wheat varieties are also lower.

Corn 1 3/4 higher. Soybeans 4 higher. Wheat 2 higher. Spring wheat futures are lightly lower Thursday morning after some recent volatile gains.

Corn 2 1/2 higher. Soybeans 9 higher. Wheat 3/4 higher. Spring wheat is within a few pennies of completely recovering last week's losses.

Soybean prices have appeared more responsive to broad projections of supply than to the ongoing flooding concerns in Argentina, the third-largest soybean-producing country. This may be due to trading programs becoming less and...

When the horse-drawn seed drill was invented in 1701, Jethro Tull would not have guessed how popular, then unpopular, its usage would become on the American Plains in the ensuing 316 years, with wheat acreage expected to drop...

Corn 1/2 lower. Soybeans 5 3/4 lower. Wheat 2 3/4 higher. Nearby soybean and corn contracts are at their lowest levels in 2017.

Corn 1/4 lower. Soybeans 3 3/4 lower. Wheat 1/4 higher. Investors remain jittery about stocks and about commodity demand.

Corn 3/4 lower. Soybeans 2 1/2 lower. Wheat 3 1/4 lower. While the stock market is in sudden meltdown, the grain markets' lack of momentum looks pretty good, compared to the alternative.

Corn 2 lower. Soybeans 1 1/2 lower. Wheat 2 3/4 lower. Nearby soybean futures continue to hover on either side of $10.00.

Corn 2 higher. Soybeans 4 higher. Wheat 2 3/4 higher. Trading volume has so far been extremely light, leaving the day's direction still to be established.

The median American farmer's "paycheck" tends to go either up or down by $20,000 per year, according to USDA data, emphasizing the importance of risk protection.

Corn 1 1/4 higher. Soybeans 2 1/4 higher. Wheat 1 lower. Likely profit-taking from the wild stock market may not benefit the grains.

Corn 2 1/4 lower. Soybeans 6 1/2 lower. Wheat 3 lower. So far, these markets are giving back only a few cents of the week's double-digit gains.

Soybeans are 7 cents higher. Wheat are 6 1/2 cents higher. Grains may not be able to ignore a stronger dollar as the session continues.

Commodity producers can borrow analysis tools from the stock investing industry to compare each crop's "alpha" above and beyond the overall commodity markets' performance.