Ferrie: Off to the Planting Races

Packers chased finished cattle into the evening on Wednesday last week and the result was another rally in cash prices to new record highs.

The rest of the U.S. will likely have good weather for planting, so it will come down to how many prevent plant acres there will be in the northern part of the Corn Belt by the end of May.

The only sure thing is that baseball is back. We cannot control nor influence either fiscal or monetary policy, so our focus is on weather, U.S. planting of corn, soybeans and spring wheat, Brazilian soybean production and U.S. exports to China.

What was once the standard for car radios, maybe on the way out. Details in today's AgDay Minute.