CHICAGO — Farmers are harvesting what are among the largest corn and soybean crops in history at the fastest pace in years, straining their physical capabilities and their grain storage capacity. The ...

On any given day, farm operators and others can get grain price quotes from the CME Group, also known as the Chicago Board of Trade, in real-time on their computer or phone. Almost as quickly, they ...

Basis for corn and soybeans across the Midwest continue to decline as a record harvest is running head on into extraordinarily tight storage capacity. “Due to the risk of lost export demand, some ...

Corn, soybean, and wheat futures prices have traded in a relatively quiet, mostly sideways price pattern for much of October.

Kevin Marcus of Marcus Weather Consulting gives the areas to watch as harvest goes into the home stretch in the northern hemisphere and the growing season is shaping up in the southern hemisphere.

Ely’s grain elevator in Guide Rock, Nebraska, is shown on Oct. 10, 2025. The elevator has a capacity of over 1 million bushels across 15 bins, two flat storage buildings and a new temporary bunker.

Another large harvest is coming in across rural America, and the record crop is presenting logistical and marketing ...

River barges are an efficient way to move crops — 15 barges can hold about as much grain as 1,000 semi-trucks. But low river levels are driving up transportation costs for Midwest farmers. The ...

The “strength of Union Pacific’s (UP) franchise and its focus on operational excellence” has led to a new Heartland Co-op grain shuttle facility being built on the Class I’s network in Millerton, Iowa ...

Farmers are harvesting what are among the largest corn and soybean crops in history at the fastest pace in years, straining their physical capabilities and their grain storage capacity. The massive ...