Love all things agriculture, football, pheasant hunting, & water skiing.
Wife. Mom to 2 amazing boys. Commodity Broker. Speaker on agriculture commodities.
Dear Lord,
I humbly lift up the American Farmers as they wake this morning from a night with little sleep. Be with them as they scout storm damage in their fields and property. Wrap your Grace around them. Fill their weary hearts. Provide peace that only comes from You.
Amen.🙏
Just boarded a flight. The woman seated next to me is starting her venture to Bosnia, (she is a sweet, kind soul) as her mom just died. We both are now crying over her grief, but she let me pray for her & her family. Never doubt where God places you in any moment.
Lord, we humbly ask your blessings, presence & guidance as America's farmers and ranchers wake this morning to assess storm damage. Buildings were lost, soil has been blown, livestock may have been hurt, and hearts are heavy. Wrap our Heartland with Your peace and love. Amen.🙏
God bless the
@KwikTrip
truck driver riding up HWY 151 tonight who drove slow, with their hazard lights on, guarding the farm machinery in front of him. The farm machinery wasn't quite properly lit, and that truck driver was/is a guardian angel to all on the hwy tonight.🙏😇
Tonight during prayer at dinner, we expressed thankfulness & asked for travel mercies as we partake on a family adventure. My boys added to the prayer, asking for God's presence, Grace and comfort to those affected by the floods and blizzards. GOD IS GOOD, even in the storms.🧡
Tonight on my way home from town I came behind a tractor pulling a trailer & it was not well marked, especially for a VERY busy hwy. I slowed way down, turned on my hazards & followed him the extra 5 miles till he got off the hwy. Glad I could assist. 💛🚜🙏 Be safe this spring😊
Because when you fly into Sioux Falls, SD and the rental car company offers you a free upgrade...you're darn straight this girl picked the biggest truck on the lot!!
#trucks
#countrygirl
15/15 years, March
#corn
futures rally into January after the December
#USDA
report. The average amount of the rally is 47 cents!! While past performance is not indicative of future results...this is interesting information.
So after getting home at midnight last night (after 2 days of work travel), driving through snow for the last 60 miles; I walk in the door and the house is trashed....like frat party trashed! Here's what my kids woke up to today 😜😂😉:
I used to be a runner.👟
Played Mid-Field⚽️⚽️ in college for UW-P.
Ran 5 miles a day until 2013.😳😊
Then I stopped.🤷♀️
Today I started. 🙌👍
Time to be a runner again😊👟
✔Talking with multiple clients about the 30 cent corn rally in 3 days.
✔Encouraging them to make cash sales.
✔They are hesitant because "no one is getting their crop planted."
✔Then I consistently hear the "BEEP" of the planter in the background....🚜🚜🚜🚜😏🙄😉
16/16 years March
#corn
futures have rallied into January after the December WASDE report. The average rally has been 47 cents!
🌽(Past performance is not indicative of future results...and 2 bil bu carry out may mute a potential rally.)🌽
To my 4th grade Little League
#baseball
coach who told me I should just quit the team because I couldn't hit the ball...today I hit 15/20 60mph fastball pitches in your honor. 😊
So I just need to brag about my husband and boys for a second.😊
Tonight I came home to:
✔ A clean house!!!!
✔ Laundry done. Folded. Put away!
✔ A homemade meal of spaghetti!
✔ A lovely set table (with candle)!
✔ A full glass of wine!🥂
😁😀🤩💃🙌👍🍽😁
Not sure who needs to hear this tonight; being in ministry doesn't necessarily mean that you have to be a minister or pastor. It means showing up and saying "yes" when God calls. Even when you are not feeling equipped, if He calls, answer. Have courage and faith to say "yes."
Four
#yield
and ending stock scenarios for
#corn
using today's acreage information and the June WASDE demand numbers. 🌽
Weather still matters going forward!!!
Well done
@maxarmstrong
. 😊😃 Congratulations on your retirement! Thank you for your phenomenal dedication to serve and promote American agriculture through the years. It has been an immense pleasure to work with you!!!
#Wisconsin
farm client just said he can get $400/acre for prevent plant. He said for him to take risk of planting
#corn
🌽 beyond
#preventplant
date (& potentially receive lower yields) he needs $6 cash corn to make it pay vs. the risk of planting late.🌽
Dear Lord,
Thank you so much for my sassy teenage son who knows better than his mom. Please give me the patience to get through the next few years. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Signed,
His Mother, Who Loves Him Anyway.
😜🙄😜🙄😜🙄🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Yield and ending stock scenarios for
#soybeans
using June 30 acres info. Weather will be critical going forward. (Keep in mind, the USDA pointed out yesterday in a "special note" that soybeans "left to be planted" for the U.S. was 8.22 mil acres.)🧐🤔
In NW
#Iowa
, top U.S.
#corn
producer, flooding has pushed river levels above 1993 records. I was curious and looked back at how corn prices responded to the summer flooding... Here is a 1993 December corn futures chart. 👇
Thanks
@MarketToMarket
for the opportunity to see you all again! Drive home was cut short due to the winter storm...stopped in Iowa City for the night. Thanks to the road crew in
#Iowa
& the truck driver who safely drove 35 mph the entire way guiding my path.😊🙏🙏
Seasonally rally tendency for new crop
#corn
starts soon
🌽10/15 years the rally starts after the Prospective Planting(PP)report
🌽 15 year av price rally from the low of the PP report day, to the "summer high" is 95 cents
🌽(Past performance is not indicative of future results)
Tomorrow marks my 20 year work anniversary with "Total Farm Marketing by Stewart-Peterson" 😀 I'm thankful. 🙏😃
Thanks to all of you for your support through the years! Looking forward to many more years of sharing my passion for American agriculture!
Tired of the crud on TV these days, we bought season one of this classic show!! Brings back memories! Our boys LOVE IT!!!
They can't get enough of the car chases and they INSIST my next car be the "General Lee!"🤣😂😉
Today is my FIFTEEN year work anniversary with
@SPInc1985
!
I am PROUD & THANKFUL!!!!💛
Such an honor & privilege to work with a company who shares my passion of
#agriculture
.
Honesty & Integrity are paramount.
I thank leadership from
@jvoeks
& Bryan Doherty for my success. 💛😃
Because some nights you have to dig through 5 different hymnals to find that "one song".....
Find comfort in the words of this favorite hymn:
"Let not your heart be troubled.... His eye IS on the sparrow, and I know He watches me."
Last year our sweet, kind neighbor gave us apples from his orchard. In returning thanks, I baked him apple bread. Tonight I found more apples at our door. 😊🍏He just called to make sure I saw the apples, & that I knew they were from him. I can't wait to bake him more bread.🍞🍏
The
#soybean
crop in
#NorthDakota
and
#SouthDakota
are at serious risk. Together those 2 states plant nearly 15% of total U.S. production.
Between
#drought
, & frozen temps last weekend, many farmers will have to
#replant
. Now 100 degree heat, high winds, and no rain in sight.
2 things that make me smile:😃
1) Heading to
#Iowa
to speak at a Women in
#agriculture
event!
2) Being in studio on Friday for
@MarketToMarket
! Excited to celebrate my 10 year anniversary of being on the show!
Iowa friends, please tell me about your
#corn
basis...two clients called in to tell me about sudden, drastic improvement of cash corn prices in their neighborhoods.🌽🧐🌽
Fun Fact:Throughout my high school & college summers I worked for a local farm family in their tobacco fields. Planting in a 4 person planter(still have scars on my shins)then walk the fields hoeing, & harvesting. Hard work & loved every minute. What was your favorite summer job?
Remember this chart? It is now 13/16 years that Dec
#corn
futures had a "summer" rally & was able to exceed the price high from March. (I'll admit, I had my doubts after the price crash in April/early May.) Dec corn has rallied nearly $1.00 in a month! Back to weather watching.🌧
Thinking of those in the ag community that have lost family and friends this week.🙏😔 Two favorite hymns reminding us who we belong to, and how His love and grace can fill those painful voids. Praying tonight that you feel His peace and presence."Breathe on Me, Breath of God."🙏
En route to
@MarketToMarket
via Fond du Lac➡️Rockford➡️Quad Cities➡️Iowa City.
#Corn
so far has been mostly ANKLE high, with nothing taller than SHIN high. 👇 is NW
#Illinois
corn, normally waist high or taller by June 20th. And more fields unplanted than you can imagine.
China may bar solar developers from building panels on farmland as the government weighs the importance of food security against its clean energy goals
When is the "summer high" for
#corn
?
15 out of 24 years, the "summer high" for July corn futures occurs in June.
Here is a look at the past 24 years: 🌽
(Past performance is not indicative of future results.)
U.S.
#soybeans
are 78% planted.
Yet,
#NorthDakota
is only 66% planted with saturated soils, prevent plant deadline just 7 days away, with more rain coming. According to the March 28 prospective planting report, ND is supposed to plant 6.9 million acres of soybeans this spring.🧐
Looking for the "harvest low" for
#corn
? 🧐
🌽In the last decade 8/10 years, the low has occurred in September.
🌽 The average rally has been 51 cents.
🌽 Note, years with larger carryout, the rally is slightly muted.
🌽Managed Money
#Funds
are still heavily net short in corn
Pres Biden today ordered 50 mil barrels of oil released from the strategic reserve to bring ⬇️energy costs. Did u know, Americans used an av of 20.7 million barrels/day in Sept, according to the EIA. That means that the release nearly equals about 2.5 days of additional supply.
It is with deep sadness we announce the passing of Walt Hackney, a long-time analyst on this program and friend to many. His time here dates back to the 1970's and we recently profiled his work to build cattle herds out West.
"I'll cast on Him my every care, And wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer."
Sometimes when my heart is heavy and I'm not sure what to do, I play this hymn. This is for all those seeking answered prayer tonight.
A client asked me if we were in the "Hope/Fear" stage of grain marketing with these lower prices. I said, "No. Feels more like the Pink Floyd stage; Comfortably Numb."
Be sure to watch
@agbizweek
as we talk next week's USDA report, yield, grain prices and more! Thank you
@maxarmstrong
and Orion for all you do for agriculture. 💛
Just remember, as you go about your day today, you can choose to be a blessing to others, or you can choose to be a bucket dipper to others.
Be the blessing. 😊💜💛💖
Well
@MarketToMarket
friends, sad to say I will not be on the show this weekend due to COVID-19 concerns in Fond du Lac County,
#Wisconsin
. (Did not want to bring my potential germs to
#Iowa
.) Some are preparing by buying TP...I bought
#milk
!!! 9 gallons!!😉
#MilkItDoesABodyGood
Great way to start the day with two legends of agriculture! Thanks
@maxarmstrong
and Orion for your hospitality. Be sure to tune into This Week in Agribusiness this weekend!
Already looking forward to my visit next week in
#Iowa
to talk with farmers regarding
#corn
,
#soybean
, &
#wheat
outlook for 2022.
@FCSAmerica
thanks for hosting me with your "Growing On" seminars on January 19 in Clear Lake & Manchester. Sign up tonight!
Our oldest is up north with great friends. 😊 🏕☺
Yet, when he is away (which is hard on this mama), I always pray that he is equipped with the Armor of God.
Where
#corn
is grown in the world:
🌽 U.S. grows 1/3 of all corn in the world.
🌽
#China
grows 1/4, uses ALL of it, & due to poor crop last year, needs to import corn.
🌽
#Brazil
grows 9.6%; their 2nd crop is suffering.
🌽Ukraine. Only 2.6%.
#WEATHER
is important this summer!!
Been back at
#running
👟👟 now for just over a month. I walk/jog/run a 3 mile loop and today shaved 34 seconds off my time!😀🙌🙌
And today it FINALLY felt good!!!!
"Mom! The meatloaf!"
When making meatloaf for two teen
#football
🏈 players (one playing Oline in high school, one playing Dline in college) you skip the "cute loaf" and go for the 9x13 that holds 5 pounds of ground
#beef
! Let's go!
You know, when it's 9:30 pm on Saturday night, and your husband tells you he/we/(me) needs to provide multiple desserts for 40 people for his work function on Tuesday......🎄🍪🍩🍰 Thoughts and prayers appreciated. 😁🤪🤯😉🙃