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Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Friday, Oct. 31st

Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Friday, Oct. 31st

Oct 31, 2025 | 2:00am
This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. I was so sure going home Wednesday night that we would either have a big trade deal to talk about and the soybean market would rally, or Trump or Xi would blow the thing up and walk […]
Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Friday, Oct. 24th

Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Friday, Oct. 24th

Oct 24, 2025 | 2:00am
This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Soybeans have been leading the ag markets higher on a dry stretch of weather in South America and optimism about the upcoming meeting between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping next week. Current planting progress in […]
Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Tuesday, Oct. 21st

Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Tuesday, Oct. 21st

Oct 21, 2025 | 2:00am
This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Monday’s session did not have a lot of new news to trade on. Export inspections were within expectations on corn and wheat, and above on beans, but still well below last year’s level. That is due to […]
Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Friday, Oct. 17th

Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Friday, Oct. 17th

Oct 17, 2025 | 2:00am
This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Harvest continues to rapidly progress in the Midwest, still without much rain to slow the combines down. With the federal government still shut down, we do not have an official harvest pace estimate from the USDA. We […]
Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Tuesday, Oct. 14th

Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Tuesday, Oct. 14th

Oct 14, 2025 | 2:00am
This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. It looked like it was going to be a quiet week last week until China released new restrictions on rare earth minerals and related mining equipment on Thursday. Trump reached an agreement with President Xi in May […]
Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Friday, Oct. 10th

Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Friday, Oct. 10th

Oct 10, 2025 | 2:00am
This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Yesterday, Thursday, Oct. 9, we were supposed to get the USDA October Supply and Demand report. Due to the government shutdown, it has been delayed officially, but in all likelihood it will be canceled. This was the […]
Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Tuesday, Oct. 7th

Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Tuesday, Oct. 7th

Oct 7, 2025 | 2:00am
This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Last week we had a lot of new info to trade and at least something to talk about. This week, not so much. The government shutdown enters the sixth day. We did not get the CFTC commitment […]
Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Friday, Oct. 3rd

Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Friday, Oct. 3rd

Oct 3, 2025 | 2:00am
On Monday’s stocks report, the big surprise was on corn stocks. USDA reported corn ending stocks at 1.532 billion bushels, which was 207 million bushels higher than their last estimate of carryout and 195 million bushels higher than the average trade guess. That counts as the second-biggest bearish surprise on the September stocks report since […]
Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Tuesday, Sept. 30th

Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Tuesday, Sept. 30th

Sep 30, 2025 | 2:00am
This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Grain markets start off the week with more of the same: very flat trade. Harvest is gaining momentum in the Midwest, as it was a wide-open weekend across the Corn Belt. After the recent showers in the […]
Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Friday, Sept. 26th

Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Friday, Sept. 26th

Sep 26, 2025 | 2:00am
This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. It’s been another quiet week in the grain markets, with low volume and no enthusiasm. Soybeans have been trading sideways after the big sell-off Friday and Monday. Argentina announced a temporary suspension of the export tariff for […]