feedyard Talk. 3/17. 10:3o pm

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Weather ---- Wind blew the snow away. 

futures

Cattle plump shopper pens.     122.025    Up.   O.575

shapely young spring break cattle headed to full feed.     150.175    Up 0.45

Feeders are at the high end of trading range and possibly in a sell position for coffee money.   If grains blow into higher territory they will go up more but not without higher grains.   IMO

What a good sale of corn and timely as well…… took all the buyers official media info streams by surprise  Wednesday to effectively bring things to dead silence….. It was wonderful...... 

It was a wonderful sale and should get most storage cleaned out and swept.  Delivery may have to be delayed until the new southern corn can help fill the promise.

Wheat acres got hammered this week as it was the final date to take the short side of insurance for wheat on acres that won't be cut for grain.  Many acres were declared now that the sw region has moisture to run with ---- a lot of acres will be grazed out with cattle and insurance companies confirmed that this week..... Lots of weak wheat and the extreme freeze is high risk....... In this case rain will make grain..... just not wheat.  The best will be left for the combine  maybe 30%.

We may not hear of that corn sale again until next fall.

Grains

Corn  @    5.55.     down a little after setting a new high Wednesday

Wheat @  5.98   down another. 2.6

Beans @  14.144.        down 3

Cotton @  87.00      Up.  0.51

Natural gas is a low  $2.539 per McF.         down.     0.016

Crude oil     64.12 .    down 0.48

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Fertilizer is primarily a factor of natural gas in this area and has no reason to be up other than price gouging which is encouraged by congress in their how to be a good monopoly training.

SW  

[k-289]

Price  gouging  suppliers  might  have  insights  from K  Street  antics  also ,  leaves  me  asking ,  did  they  follow  the             folks  at  the  seed  germ  patent tech  salesforce  -  ? 

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Speaking  of  Congress  on  the  local  front,  driving  the  wrong  way  in Topeka  on  I 470 ,  seems  to  have  different  consequences  for  Sunflower  State  politicians  -  with  hollowing  out  charges,  momentarily  -  ?     

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I am "out of the loop" on Topeka and its "elementary teachers union governor".  They care little about anything west of Salina or Wichita and I care little for them.  Surely the old gov. let class out and took her double pay to Cancun along with many other teachers.  For the last year and half of next.

Best thing that ever happened to education......... brought teachers out into the "light".  A career most likely to leave.

[k-289]

Kansas  Senator  driving  confusion  on  I 470 ,  will  add  to  legislative  majority  leadership  confusion  -  -  -

Union  in  his  party  might  be  tested , even  though it  appears  he  was  exempt  from  testing ,  with  oversight  & too  much  over  regulation , this  instance  , being  the  case  -  which  could , might  lead  to  marketing  missteps ,   maybe - ?        

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It is a tough world out there when there is no-one on the road to show you which way to go....

Blame the Governor of the other party for lockdown of mental faculties.

Wichita senator........  kansas and agriculture in general,  is not involved in this case at all..... except we will have to pay for his rehabilitation and driver retraining and student loans.  Along with those other travelers who were traumatized by his mistakes...... millions depending on color...............(of the car)

[k-289]

  Gene Suellentrop  antics,  was  the  headliner   -  -  -