Market Talk

Markets were very quiet on Friday with two-sided trade in grains and oilseeds and mildly higher action in livestock. What are the markets and traders paying attention as we head into the weekend? We discuss the week in the trade on today's show with Kristi Van Ahn-Kjeseth from Van Ahn & Company in the first half of our program. Then, we get market perspective and a planting update from South Dakota with DuWayne Bosse from Bolt Marketing.

Find more for Kristi online at https://www.vanahnco.com and for DuWayne at https://www.boltmarketingllc.com.

Also at the end of the show, in Segment Four, we hear our Midday Commentary with Arlan Suderman of StoneX and FARM's Susan Littlefield has cattle market commentary from Jerry Stowell of Country Futures in Frankfort, KS.

Markets are quietly mixed as we end the week of trade on Friday. Traders are watching weather, headline news and much more across the grain and livestock trade. Arlan Suderman from StoneX joins us to discuss in our Midday Commentary.

We've got a busy show for Thursday! Overall, grain and livestock market action was choppy to higher on Thursday. Bryan Doherty with Total Farm Marketing joins us to discuss some of the strength in soybeans, corn and soybean oil along with perspective on risk management in these markets that are continuing to look for fresh news. Find more by visiting https://www.totalfarmmarketing.com.

Also, Brady Huck with Advance Trading joins us to discuss and share his perspective on the choppy action in cattle trade as we near the end of the week. We also get some thoughts on weather impacts for the wheat markets in our conversation. Find more at https://www.advance-trading.com.

PLUS, we get a new episode of Cattle Chatter as Susan Littlefield talks with Brad Kooima from Kooima Kooima Varilek about some light trade starting to surface in Kansas, with plenty of talk about just how tight supplies are. On the export front, the clock is ticking for American-style BBQ joints in Beijing—owners say they've got about two weeks' worth of U.S. beef left in the freezer. After that, it's likely a switch to Australian beef as tariffs squeeze supplies. Find more info about KKV Trading online at https://www.kkvtrading.com.

And at the end of the show in Segment Four, we hear comments from Arlan Suderman of StoneX via Thursday's Midday Commentary and some thoughts on end of the week cattle trade with Kyle Bumsted from Allendale.

Grain and livestock markets are fairly mixed on Thursday as we continue to track news headlines, export sales, weather and more. Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX, joins us to look at the trade action in our Midday Commentary.

Some easing of tensions and tariffs with China coupled with a cooled down rhetoric by President Trump in regards to Fed Chair Jerome Powell gave support to the stock market and U.S. dollar. Did it also give support to the soy complex on Wednesday? We discuss headline news, weather, fundamentals and more with Mike Zuzolo from Global Commodity Analytics on today's show. More at https://www.globalcommresearch.com.

Markets are mixed at midweek with some easing of concern in the outside markets. Fertilizer prices are seen an uptick though. We touch on grains, stocks and fertilizer with Mike Castle from StoneX in our Midday Commentary.

Soybeans were higher on the day while corn and wheat moved slightly lower as planting progress starts to pick up across the Midwest. Meantime, cattle and hog futures had a strong day on Tuesday. Cory Bratland with AgMarket.net joins us to discuss. Find more at https://www.agmarket.net.

Fairly mixed trade in grains at midday while livestock found some good support and we see a rally in outside markets. Farm and Ranch Media's Susan Littlefield gets details in our Midday Commentary with Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX.

Stocks, energies and the U.S. dollar were all under heavy pressure on Monday which ended up weighing on grain and livestock trade. John Heinberg with Total Farm Marketing joins us today to run through the trade action and share some market perspective coming off a holiday weekend. Find more at https://www.totalfarmmarketing.com.

We saw a fairly active weekend of weather for the Easter holiday and it sounds like more is in store for the central U.S. this week. Eric Snodgrass joins us to discuss the weather outlook for the rest of April, potential drought risk this summer and more. Find more at https://www.ag-wx.com.

Heavy volatility is being seen in outside markets on Monday with pressure on stocks, the U.S. dollar and crude oil while gold is soaring higher again. It appears some of this is starting to spill over into grain and livestock trade as well. Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX, joins us for analysis.