The U.S. produced a record large corn crop this year, which means there’s a lot of corn to move. The good news is that demand ...

As Pro Farmer Crop Tour scouts set out on the first day of the tour this year, they found crops with adequate moisture in South Dakota, but Ohio crops starting to struggle from too little rain.

Expectations for a record U.S. crop and big harvests in other growing regions have pushed down corn futures to their lowest price since autumn 2020, when they were climbing back from the Covid slump.

Corn has stayed locked in a tight $4.30–$4.50 range for 70 of the last 74 sessions, and this “holding pattern” seems likely to persist until the January USDA crop report. In 30 of the last 36 trading ...