Market Watch

While the pace of the domestic soybean crush is slowing, the pace of exports and export sales of U.S. soybeans remains generally strong, according to University of Illinois Extension marketing specialist Darrel Good.

For the year, the USDA projects exports at 1.075 billion bushels, only 3.8 percent below the record shipments of last year. Through the [...]

As some producers consider planting more rather than less corn in 2008, the issue may be whether lingering cold, wet conditions will limit corn acreage. University of Illinois Extension marketing specialist Darrel Good explains:
In the past, producers have been willing to plant corn ‘late’ in the face of high prices. In 1995 and 1996, for [...]

Corn appears to be more profitable than soybeans in 2008 by wider margins than in recent years, according to a new University of Illinois Extension study, Historic and Projected Corn versus Soybean Returns: Release of FBFM Corn and Soybean Results.
“Projections for 2008 indicate that the differences between corn and soybeans may be even wider than [...]