Market Talk Jesse Allen

Wheat continued its upside leadership in the ag sector on Tuesday with double digit gains across Chicago, KC and Minneapolis wheat on the day. That helped to pull corn and soybeans a bit higher as well but gains were a bit limited there. Lean hogs also had strong day higher. We discuss this early week strength and overall trade fundamentals with Jim McCormick from AgMarket.net on today's program. Learn more at https://www.agmarket.net.

Grains remain quietly higher as wheat remains the leader on Tuesday while we see mixed action in livestock with the hog market challenging recent highs. Arlan Suderman with StoneX joins us to discuss in our Midday Commentary.

It was a solid day higher across grain and livestock trade on Monday. We haven't seen many days like this in recent memory so it was a positive start to the trading week. John Heinberg with Total Farm Marketing joins us to discuss the wheat led rally on Monday and his perspective on whether or not it's a short lived rally we are looking at? Learn more online at https://www.totalfarmmarketing.com.
Eric Snodgrass with Nutrien Ag Solutions joins us for our weekly weather conversation to discuss weekend frost, dryness concerns in the Plains wheat crop and the outlook for spring planting windows through the end of April and into May. Learn more at https://www.ag-wx.com.

It's mostly green on the screen across the board on Monday with wheat and cattle leading the charge. We discuss the overall positive day in the markets with Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX, in our Midday Commentary.

As we wrapped up the week on Friday, grain markets found some green on the screen led by soybeans and Chicago wheat. We saw overnight escalation between Israel and Iran, EPA announced the summertime E-15 waiver on Friday and livestock trade was mixed with hogs finding strength while cattle were mixed ahead of the latest Cattle on Feed Report.
First up on today's show, we talk headline risk in the markets and get some interesting clarity on USDA's thinking when it comes to getting rid of certain NASS reports and the big differences between USDA and Conab. Ted Seifried from Zaner Ag Hedge joins us to discuss all of that and more.
In Segment Three, we discuss the market headlines and overall demand picture in the grain markets. Joe Lardy, research analyst with CHS, joins the show for the first time to discuss. Then Jesse wraps the show in Segment Four with a look at the April Cattle on Feed Report and more.

Grain markets found some decent support on Friday with plenty of geopolitical risk, news on summertime E-15 and more. We discuss the market moves heading to the weekend with Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX.