Bill Watts

A 35% good-to-excellent rating for winter wheat crop comes in below estimates and marks the lowest initial spring rating since 2022...As the map shows, it was a particularly rough winter in the Plains

Workers returning without an agreement in place, talks set to resume April 9 & 10...

It's all eyes on prospective plantings...and we've got you covered...

Here comes the March WASDE....follow the data and the reaction live here... profarmer.com/news/live/marc…

Check out the Pro Farmer Podcast: We look at how the Iran conflict has affected crop prices so far and delve into how the closure of the Strait of Hormuz could affect planting decisions, with @wlwatts, @iwatchcorn and @HillariMason profarmer.com/news/pro-farme…

🚨NEWS -- HOUSE REPULBICAN LEADERSHIP has a deal with the midwestern holdouts who were demanding year-round sale of E15 in funding bill. The House Republicans will set up a rural energy council -- chaired by @RepFeenstra and @RepBice -- to dig into E15 issue and negotiate acceptable language. Bice's Oklahoma has a lot of oil and gas. Feenstra's Iowa has E15 interests The goal is a Feb 25 deadline.

USDA-NASS on Monday released their first monthly slaughter report since the government’s re-opening, covering data through the end of October. The report showed that trends of higher slaughter weights for livestock, but still lower overall red meat production when compared to previous years are persisting in to the fall. zurl.co/hezJf

How likely is China to make 12MMT in soybean purchases this year? Here’s what ag economists think… profarmer.com/news/agricultu…

Trump: ‘Our relationship with China has been very good. As far as buying our farm products they're pretty much on schedule. Scott, I'd like you to call them and say if they could speed it up it would be good, but they're pretty much on schedule.’

If sifting through the crop production and WASDE reports isn’t enough excitement for you, USDA will also dump 6 weeks worth of shutdown-delayed daily export sales data on Friday profarmer.com/news/agricultu…

25 MMT puts us in scenario 3 here and quickly puts the balance sheet in an untenable situation.. need to ration demand eventually and hard to imagine that happens at $11.00

What could U.S. exports look like with China potentially re-entering the U.S. market? @iwatchcorn outlines 3 scenarios to look at: zurl.co/yhbYp

In this week's Pro Farmer Podcast, @iwatchcorn looks into the new harvest survey, with "shocking" results from key growing states. zurl.co/A4bJN

For those still wondering where we are in the cycle...

Don't miss it!...

Department of Nevermind: marketwatch.com/story/always-t…

'It may be easy to overlook the risk posed by core services inflation'... marketwatch.com/story/what-man… via @vivienlouchen and @Isabelxwang

First the stag, now the flation?... marketwatch.com/story/first-we…

The U.S. economy is still OK, but it's not nearly as good as we had thought. The number of new jobs created from spring 2024 to spring 2025 was overestimated by 911,000! Hiring has since slowed to a crawl. Fed rate cuts here we come. marketwatch.com/story/economy-… via @MarketWatch

'The risk we’re worrying about is a repeat of July’s composition — soft goods inflation with sticky services pressure — that isn’t as easy to ignore': BMO marketwatch.com/story/wall-str…