Brooks Schaffer

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. In response to an incident that was dubbed the Great Russian Grain Robbery in the early 1970s, the USDA developed reporting requirements and releases to make the exports transparent to the market. Everytime anyone in the US […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. I have mentioned previously I was surprised at how well soybeans had held on despite the forecast for rain in Brazil which should get the crop planted and up. I guess I spoke too soon as it […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. We got USDA’s latest supply and demand estimates on Friday. The market only expected very minor adjustments and that is what USDA delivered. USDA pegged corn carryout just barely below the psychologically important 2 billion bushel level […]

/This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Today is USDA report day! The October WASDE Supply and Demand Report comes out today at noon eastern. The October update will incorporate the stocks data we got last week as the old crop carryout on the […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Headlines for corn and wheat continue to lean at least a little bit bullish. Early yield reports for corn started off good but we are starting to hear more reports of disappointing numbers. Still probably going to […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Corn and soybeans had a strong day Friday capping off a good week for the bulls. Monday started off fairly quiet with mostly positioning ahead of the stocks report. The stocks report gives us the final old […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Finally, we have a week with a lot to talk about. Soybeans finally found a spark starting with dry weather in Brazil. November beans traded as low as $9.55 on Sept 16th and traded as high as […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Last week corn and soybeans went out with a whimper with soybeans testing support but holding over $10 and corn getting too close to support at $4 for comfort. Sunday night, corn and soybeans opened with a […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Grain and oilseed markets traded with light volume most of the week without being able to get much traction in either direction. We are in the early stages of harvest in the US and there is not […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Corn shrugged off USDA’s yield increase on Friday closing strong to give us the third positive weekly close for the first time since April. Corn was able to shake off the higher yield since carryout did not […]