Over the last few years, we have held our breath as hurricanes barrel their way toward the southeastern portion of the United States. We see the horrible d...

Bring on an Indian Summer. Right now old crop black oils are tight. A lot of elevators are sold out and some won’t even offer new crop quite yet. The crush b...

On June 28 the USDA released the Acreage and Grain Stocks reports. While the report provided some support for both corn and soybeans, it indicated higher th...

Undoubtedly, factoring freight costs and managing logistics is one of the most interesting aspects of merchandising. In an ever-streamlining world, where pro...

Is it the calm after the storms? The sunflower market is relatively quiet. The Midwest was pummeled repeatedly with moisture, in one form or another, throug...

All across the country, folks are bundling up for protection from the extremely cold temperatures this winter; courtesy of some polar vortexes! As with migr...

There is always the possibility of attracting a very unexpected and exciting feathered friend to your feeder in the winter. But how? We just need to know wh...

A couple of myths have caused some of us to worry, unnecessarily, that our wild birds won’t migrate if we keep our feeders full in the fall? Feeding birds in...

Each autumn some 2,000,000 hunters take to the fields, forests and wetlands of the U.S. to hunt game birds. Around 3,000 tons of lead shot is fired. The bulk...