Todd Hultman

USDA's corn and soybean production estimates will include objective yield data from the fields for the first time in Thursday's Crop Production and WASDE reports and will get traders' attention, at least for a day. Analysts are...

This year's corn crop has had an unusually high number of adverse weather challenges in 2024. USDA's September WASDE report has an opportunity to fill in many of the blanks of where this year's crop stands.

After 40 years in the commodity business, this analyst is retiring. To those that have gotten to know me during my time at DTN, thank you for joining me on the journey. It's been a good ride with lots of unexpected turns along...

USDA will offer new production estimates of corn, soybeans and wheat based on producer surveys, weather data and a review of harvested acre data from the Farm Service Agency and Risk Management Agency in its Crop Production...

The Fed is doing exactly what it said it would do to restrain inflation, and the concerns I raised in this space in 2022 have also come about. For ag markets, the Fed's campaign to raise interest rates has gone too far.

Heavy rains, hail, severe weather and tornadoes added to planting challenges in early 2024. Now, we begin the process of trying to determine the yields that will follow that turbulent start.

Favorable crop prospects in the U.S. have encouraged specs to sell November soybeans to their lowest price level in over three and a half years, creating a bargain for potential buyers. Technically speaking, there is also reason...

The July WASDE report recently provided another example of why we need to tread lightly when it comes to using fundamental data to make marketing decisions. The data can be flawed and no law says traders have to care.

Friday's July 12 USDA reports will update balance sheets with new estimates from the June 28 Acreage and Grain Stocks reports, including estimates of ground that was not planted at the time of the June survey.

More than just salad dressing, the world's plant oils are increasingly being sought out as low-carbon substitutes for fuel as prices show signs of increased demand.

Since the ethanol industry was authorized in 2007, 2017 stands alone as the only year in which DTN's national index of cash corn hasn't reached USDA's cost of production estimate at least once...

USDA will release its Acreage and quarterly Grain Stocks reports at 11 a.m. CDT on Friday. However, because USDA's planting estimates are based on its survey in the first two weeks of June, Friday's acreage estimates won't reflect...

AAA retail diesel prices that peaked at $5.82 a gallon two years ago this month were down to $3.81 Friday. Soybean oil has formidable competition in the renewable diesel market, but the incentive to crush soybeans remains enticing.

Managed futures funds are heavily net short in corn futures, but cash prices reflect uncertain prospects for 2024 production and strong demand at these lower prices.