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By Sholom Sanik |
January 31, 2013
Sugar prices have fallen to two-and-a-half year lows amid forecasts for an ever expanding 2012-13 global production/consumption surplus.
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By Sholom Sanik |
January 23, 2013
Since biodiesel broke onto the scene in a meaningful way in the mid-2000s, approximately 10%-15% of U.S. soybean oil output has been used for biodiesel.
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By Phil Flynn |
January 11, 2013
Get ready for a new dynamic in today’s energy trade. In a major shift, the USDA, the NASS and WAOB will begin issuing its major USDA statistical reports at 11:00am CST. For ethanol and corn traders, this is the most notorious report of the year!
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By Jeff Wilson, Bloomberg |
December 19, 2012
Corn futures tumbled to a five-month low after the government said production of ethanol fell and inventories rose last week.
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By Phil Flynn |
December 18, 2012
Oil prices are back on the rise as it appears that both sides of the fiscal cliff negotiations are willing to give a little bit.
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By Jeff Wilson |
December 11, 2012
Three straight years of smaller U.S. corn harvests are driving inventories of the world’s most-consumed grain to a 39-year low.
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By Sholom Sanik |
December 3, 2012
The sugar bear had a brief respite this past fall when poor harvest weather in Brazil threatened the quality and quantity of the crop.
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By Philip Burgert |
November 1, 2012
As the harvest wraps up and next year approaches, big questions abound regarding the future of the grain and livestock sectors.
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By Sholom Sanik |
August 31, 2012
Unfavorable weather conditions in June and part of July in the world’s two largest sugar producers threatened to compromise 2012-13 production. Improved weather stabilized the situation, ending fears of a global deficit.
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By Sara Forden, Bloomberg |
August 17, 2012
A challenge to an Environmental Protection Agency rule allowing higher concentrations of corn-based ethanol in gasoline was thrown out by a U.S. Appeals Court ruling that the groups pressing the case had no right to sue.
