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Use a weather scare to make sales By: Al Kluis 02/16/2012 @ 11:38am
What were the major events that created price movement in 2011? And can you forecast any events – negative or positive – that will drive prices in 2012?” Those were the first two questions that were ...
Do not panic during Euro debt crisis By: Al Kluis 01/30/2012 @ 3:11pm
Most likely the 2012 corn yield will end up between 145 and 165 bushels per acre. Odds favor a better-than-trendline yield in 2012. And with 95 million acres, we could end with a large crop and lower prices by ...
Wheat prices pull corn and beans lower By: Al Kluis 01/11/2012 @ 11:38am
Since May 2011, the projected global ending stocks of wheat have increased by over 800 million bushels. This has dropped global and U.S. wheat prices by over $2 per bushel and pulled corn and bean prices lower ...
Do better in 2012 By: Al Kluis 12/06/2011 @ 10:57am
As harvest wrapped up across the Corn Belt this fall, farmers went in to meet with their accountants, bankers, and tax advisers. Some farmers then went to buy seed, fertilizer, and equipment in order to manage ...
Finalize 2011 marketing plan By: Al Kluis 08/30/2011 @ 3:54pm
This has been a year of records in the corn and soybean markets. Corn went to a record high of $7.99¾, corn futures have traded limit up or limit down a record 35 times this year, and the current USDA ...
The three M's of marketing By: Al Kluis 07/27/2011 @ 3:48pm
I conducted a marketing and technology survey with some of the farmers I worked with this spring. I got several questions and had a huge response with a lot of good suggestions.One question was, “What is the ...
Al Kluis: Long-Term Lows Are Due This Fall By: Al Kluis 06/29/2011 @ 12:00am
Watch for a harvest low. “Do your chart patterns work when you have earthquakes, tsunami, and a nuclear meltdown?” was the first question from a nervous farmer before the meeting even started. The ...
Al Kluis: 5 factors that created the grain market rally By: Al Kluis 04/05/2011 @ 12:00am
2011 Corn: July - December Spread Did you forecast grain prices to go this high last year? What caused it?” These were the first two questions from a farmer at a seminar in Colorado this winter. The ...
Al Kluis: Creating a marketing plan for 2011 By: Al Kluis 02/28/2011 @ 12:00am
“Making crop insurance decisions and marketing decisions are a lot harder than they were five years ago when prices were a lot lower.” This was the comment I got from a young lady at a meeting in central ...
Al Kluis: Fine-tune your marketing plan By: Al Kluis 02/14/2011 @ 12:00am
Anxiety levels are going up. Even with the recent rally to $6 corn and $14+ soybeans, farmers are more worried than ever about cash rents, grain prices, and operating margins. In 2006, my typical ...
Al Kluis: Using a market advisory service By: Al Kluis 01/26/2011 @ 12:00am
I have been providing farmers with advice and recommendations for 36 years. The products I offer and how I communicate with farmers have changed dramatically the last five years. How farmers use market ...
Al Kluis: Crop revenues increase to record levels By: Al Kluis 01/12/2011 @ 12:00am
In the 36 years I’ve been working with farmers, I have finally figured out what most crop producers want each year: They want a big crop and a big price. But that’s rarely happened. That’s because ...
Al Kluis: Looking into the future By: Al Kluis 12/15/2010 @ 12:00am
“Will you use those seasonal patterns to make cash and new-crop sale recommendations after this year? It did not work real good in 2010.” That was the question and comment from a farmer in western ...
Al Kluis: Risk management... Control your bottom line By: Al Kluis 11/18/2010 @ 12:00am
How can you have a market plan that works for you when commodity funds can run prices dramatically higher than they should go and then lower than you would imagine? Like this year when corn futures dropped to ...
Al Kluis: 3 possible price scenarios By: Al Kluis 11/10/2010 @ 12:00am
This question was asked by a farmer at a grower meeting in Quincy, Illinois: Can the grain markets keep moving higher right into harvest, when the rest of the U.S. economy is moving lower? Here was my short ...
Al Kluis: 2011 acreage battle starts now By: Al Kluis 10/26/2010 @ 12:00am
The combination this year of record demand from China and the worst drought in 1,000 years in Russia has dramatically changed the global grain fundamentals. As a result, wheat futures soared by over $4 per ...
