Market Trends

FBN experts outline four steps you can take to mitigate risk for your ag operation in 2025.

What should farmers know about marketing this year? Cody Bills, director of U.S. producer advisory and brokerage for FBN®, shares what to expect for 2025 grain prices and how producers can best set their ag operations up for success.

A new sustainability initiative aims to reimagine the grain supply chain and expand farmer access to Low-Carbon Grain premiums.

There are different types of market risk you can face in choosing the wisest marketing tool for the job at hand. They are: futures market risk, basis risk and opportunity risk.

After you master the bar chart basics to following the ag commodities markets, the next step is to better understand a few of the pro tips to navigating them. Technical studies - a common approach used by advisors serving farmers - can help you to follow

Throughout human history, we can observe cycles, or the tendency of certain events to repeat themselves at regular, predictable intervals. There are many variables in supply and demand for ag commodities, so it’s no easy task for the laws of economics to

Assumptions behind technical analysis, as well as bar chart basics and what trend lines and common chart formations tell us about market signals.

Cynics often remark that the trick to making a small fortune in futures trading is to start out with a large one. It may seem like a never-ending poker game between bulls always wanting to bet on higher prices, and bears always betting on lower ones. The

Making sense of hedgers versus speculators, puts versus calls, derivative marketing tools and perspectives on drivers of option premiums.

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) was launched way back in 1848 by a group of 25 Chicago businessmen. It stemmed from shortcomings in the system at the time of strictly cash market activity between farmers and buyers, where a glut of grain offered at harv