Brooks Schaffer

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. A well used trading adage is escalator up and elevator down. In around 8 trading sessions, the market erased the gains it took more than 3 months to gain. We really did not need a reminder about […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. The selloff in the grains started with a shift in the weather in South America a couple weeks ago. Areas that were too dry in Argentina started getting rain and the areas of Brazil that were too […]

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 Ag Outlook Forum numbers Thursday morning. I would call them mildly bearish for corn and wheat and mildly bullish for beans. They are not dramatically bigger or smaller than expected. However, these are just […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Corn and beans continued the slide lower Monday after a disappointing close on Friday’s session. Corn gave up all of its gains for the week on Friday March corn approached a very important support level of $4.81 […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Grain markets were closed on Monday during the day session for Presidents Day. The market opened back up 8pm on Monday night. The weekly reports will be delayed by a day this week due to the holiday.  […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. My catch phrase for the month of February may be the roller coaster continues in the grain markets. The markets are trading South American weather and weather markets are notoriously volatile. On top of that you throw […]

As was expected, Tuesday’s WASDE report, the World Ag Supply and Demand Estimates, did not present a lot of changes. Brooks Shaffer, market advisor with Palmetto Grain in Ridgeland, South Carolina, says USDA played it safe with this report. “They do not make changes on the supply side. But there have we were ahead of […]

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 continue to trade mostly weather and closely follow geopolitics for direction. Weather model runs for South America show hints at improvement for crop development. It is trending dryer in Brazil where they need […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. The roller coaster continues in the grain markets. We have a weather market in South America on top of more geopolitical risk than we have had in several years. Market participants are combing through all the headlines […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. If you feel like you have whiplash from watching the markets, you are not the only one. Last week we saw strength in the corn and beans from dryness in Argentina and too much rain in center […]