Brennan Turner is the Founder & CEO of FarmLead, the global leader in digital cash grain marketplaces, including its newest trust-based tool, Combyne. He holds a degree in economics from Yale University and spent time on Wall Street in commodity trade and analysis before starting FarmLead. In 2017, Brennan was named to Fast Company’s List of Most Creative People in Business and, in 2018, a Henry Crown Fellow as part of the Aspen Institute. He is originally from Foam Lake, Saskatchewan where his family started farming the land nearly 100 years ago (and still do to this day on more than 50,000 acres!). Brennan’s comments on grain markets are regularly featured in everything from small-town newspapers to large media outlets like CNBC and Bloomberg.
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Alongside the rest of the grain markets complex, wheat prices on the futures board were able to end their skid and bounce a little higher on bargain buying and short-covering. While some of this could also be traders positioning ahead of the February 2020 WASDE report, the USDA has admitted that they’re only going to report on “publicly…
Alongside the rest of the complex, wheat markets on the futures board finished the month of January rather ugly as traders headed for the sidelines.
Soft red winter wheat prices in Chicago were the only commodity to find gains this week and it would have been much more positive if it were not for the heavy losses on Friday alongside the rest of the complex. To start this week, wheat prices have continued their sell-off, although it’s alongside all other grains as investors move…
Wheat prices were slightly stronger last week on some weather and tradeflow headlines, but grain markets were dominated by the signing of the Phase One trade deal between China and the United States. Unfortunately, soybean prices didn’t react that well to the deal as there is a lot of vague legalese in the agreement, including this…
