Market Talk

Grain markets are mostly quiet once again today as we drift around without much fresh news for traders. Meantime, the cattle market continues to find strong support on Thursday. Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX, joins us to discuss in our Midday Commentary.

Susan Littlefield sits in today for Jesse and she has market conversations with Mike Zuzolo from Global Commodity Analytics, Arlan Suderman from StoneX and Jeff Peterson with Heartland Farm Partners on today's show, powered by John Deere.

Soybeans are quietly higher at midweek while cattle futures continue to show more strength, looking at three higher days in a row on Wednesday. Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX, joins us to discuss in our Midday Commentary for Wednesday, October 8th, 2025.

Tuesday's market trade action was mostly quiet and mixed as the grain markets look for fresh news and livestock chopped around a bit on the day. We get thoughts and perspective on the early week market action with Jacob Burks from AgMarket.net. We also get bonus analysis from Sue Martin with Ag & Investments in Clarion, IA. Learn more online by visiting https://www.agandinvestments.com.

And we start the show with John Deere, who has recently rolled out some exciting new products in their hay and forage space. We learn about new products and discuss the customer experience with new tech from John Deere as Kaylene Ballesteros, Hay and Forage Marketing Manager, joins us to share more. Find more online at https://www.deere.com.

We see more mixed action in the grain and livestock trade at midday Tuesday, as we await a potential announcement from the Trump Administration on farmer aid. Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX, joins us to discuss today's market action.

Grain markets were quiet to start the week on Monday while cattle futures had a strong upside day. We talk about market uncertainty with a lack of government reports, looking at market fundamentals and more with John Heinberg from Total Farm Marketing. More online at https://www.totalfarmmarketing.com.

Also, we see some rain potential in the forecast for dry areas of the Midwest and mid-south early this week while new long-range weather models for winter indicate the possibility of a drought busting pattern. Eric Snodgrass from Nutrien Ag Solutions joins us to discuss all of that and more on our Weekly Weather Update for Monday, October 6th, 2025. More at https://www.ag-wx.com.

Markets are quietly mixed to start the week as the government shutdown continues, farmer aid announcements are reportedly on the way and more. Arlan Suderman with StoneX joins us to discuss in our Midday Commentary for Monday, October 6th, 2025.

As we wrap up the week and get fully into October, we take a broad look at where things stand in the grain and livestock markets with Chad Hart from Iowa State University. We discuss seasonal harvest pressure in the markets, headline news influence, livestock market action and more as we close out with a quiet trading day on Friday.

Also in Segment Four, dairy farmers from New Zealand spent time at World Dairy Expo to learn more about technologies used in the states and share their story as well. We learn more with our own Susan Littlefield to close out the show.

Markets are quietly mixed to higher as we look to close out the week of trade. Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX joins us for our Midday Commentary with thoughts on USDA suspending its October WASDE Report, a potential farm bailout and more.

We saw another higher day in the grains and oilseeds on Thursday as the early October winning streak continues. Meantime, it was a lower day in the livestock trade with feeder cattle futures down sharply to close the session.

On today's show, we put an emphasis on controlling the factors you can control and looking at market fundamentals. Bryan Doherty with Total Farm Marketing joins us in Segment Three followed by David Brock from The Brock Report in Segment Four.

Before all of that, we have this week's Cattle Chatter conversation with Susan Littlefield and Brad Kooima from KKV Trading in Segment Two and we hear from Arlan Suderman of StoneX in our opening segment of the show, powered by John Deere Operations Center.