This month’s 2026/27 U.S. corn outlook is for smaller supplies, lower domestic use, unchanged exports, and reduced ending stocks. Projected beginning stocks for 2026/27 are 23 million bushels lower based primarily on a larger export forecast for 2025/26. Corn production for 2026/27 is forecast at 15.8 billion bushels, 213 million down from last month on a 2.2-bushel reduction in yield to 178.5 bushels per acre and a fractional decrease in harvested area to 88.5 million.
Read MoreThe 2026 corn and soybean harvest season will be remembered for low commodity prices and high production costs that created lackluster results both locally and throughout the state.
Read MoreThere has been an abundance of ear rots reported in Louisiana throughout this growing season. As the harvest window is winding down, and with many growers already finished with harvest, I have heard of one reoccurring issue in particular: aflatoxin. There have been reports of heavy docking and even loads being rejected at the elevators.
Read MoreCorn exports through Mississippi River terminals surged during the week ending August 13, with 1.1 million metric tons inspected for shipment. That was 176% above the prior three-year average and the third-highest weekly total from the river this year.
Read MoreThe latest crop progress report from USDA, out Monday afternoon and covering the week through August 16, showed corn and soybean quality ratings slightly declined, which matched analysts’ expectations. The winter wheat harvest is nearly complete, meantime, as the spring wheat harvest closes in on the halfway mark.
Read MoreIn mid-June, Avoyelles Parish saw some of the most destructive flooding the parish has ever faced following Tropical Storm Arthur. In its aftermath, farmers are reaping whatever harvest they can, however meager.
Farmers we spoke to say that hundreds of acres of crops were completely unsavable. Soybeans may have looked green and healthy on the outside, but were rendered unusable on the inside by floodwaters.
Read MoreWhen it comes to corn and soybeans, states such as Illinois and Iowa are certain to be production juggernauts season after season. The sheer number of acres dedicated to these crops means that all eyes -- and the markets -- tend to focus their attention on these states, including the 2026 DTN Digital Yield Tour.
Yet, living on the buckle of the Corn Belt isn't a prerequisite for growing successful, and often high-yielding, crops, as this year's tour estimates reveal.
Read MoreCorn and soybean yields came in a bit lower than analyst expectations while harvested area for both crops came in higher according to USDA’s August World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report out on Wednesday.
Read MoreDomestic processors used more corn and soybeans in June than a year earlier, strengthening demand beyond export markets. USDA’s Grains Crushings and Co-Products Report for Aug. 3 shows ethanol plants consumed 467 million bushels of corn, up 4 percent from June 2025.
Read MoreCorn harvest is rolling across Louisiana, but for Kam Harper, getting a combine into the field this year took two plantings and months of uncertainty.
Read MoreA year ago, StoneX Group’s first national yield survey of the season landed like a thunderclap on the trade floor. A corn number north of 180 bu. per acre, 188, to be exact, caught the market flat-footed and reset expectations for the rest of the growing season.
This year’s survey didn’t produce the same jolt. But that, according to StoneX’s own economists, may be exactly the point.
Read MoreFarmers from across the country are urging the federal government to expedite an investigation of the fertilizer industry as they struggle with “impossibly high input costs.”
A letter from grower associations follows a slew of recent federal actions taken to address the expense of fertilizers.
Read MoreIt has been a challenging time for farmers. First tariffs, and more recently, restrictions on ships in the Strait of Hormuz carrying fertilizer or the elements and compounds in it, have increased the cost of bringing crops to harvest.
LSU Ag Center’s Dr. Peters Egbedi said farmers have dealt with the increases in different ways. Some, anticipating price hikes, purchased extra fertilizer early.
Read MoreThis month’s 2026/27 U.S. corn outlook is for smaller supplies, greater exports, and reduced ending stocks. Corn beginning stocks are cut 125 million bushels to 2.0 billion, reflecting an increase in feed and residual use that is partly offset by a reduction in corn used for ethanol for 2025/26. Feed and residual use is raised 150 million bushels based on indicated disappearance in the June 30 Grain Stocks report.
Read MoreIn northeast Louisiana, agriculture pilot Reed Keahey flies with sticker shock.
His plane needs kerosene-based Jet-A fuel, the price of which has soared during the Iran war. A gallon that cost $2.46 in February, just before the war broke out, peaked at $4.11 in May.
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