During volatile markets, I often think of the kids on my baseball team. Picture this: It’s the bottom of the sixth, the bases are loaded…

We grow it, feed it and ship it While other grains have moved down recently, corn prices remain strong. Roughly 95% of our corn crop…

Gold blasts-off on tariff fears Conservative investors joined funds, central banks, speculators and gold bugs in hunting for a refuge from more chaotic tariff talks…

Usually, our dog would get in the back of my truck on the tailgate steps, but if I had a trailer on, she had to…

Adios tariffs, hola hogs Hogs, corn and soybeans rallied sharply on Thursday when President Trump reversed his tariff plans and announced that Mexico would not…

Dollar smashes commodities An explosive rise in the U.S. dollar Wednesday night drove gold, silver, then virtually all commodity prices into a tailspin. Corn, wheat,…

Unlikely bedfellows chill out together Activity this week demonstrated that futures markets indeed look ahead to the future and not current conditions. Three disparate markets…

“Oh no, not the eggs,” my wife exclaimed last night when the news showed a semi-truck on our local interstate had crashed in the snowstorm…

Silver soars on fresh demand, inflation fears Though all metals were extremely volatile this week, silver’s $2 per ounce explosion, from Tuesday’s low, pumped adrenaline…

Navigating change: Inflation, tariffs and trends As my daughter prepares to enter junior high in the fall of 2025, I find myself reflecting on how…