06/25/25 Afternoon CommStock Report – Support Levels Breaking Down In Grains

I drove I-35 North from Des Moines to Minneapolis this past weekend. Crops looked good from the highway, but it was not hard to find some standing water. This would indicate fields are well saturated, and yet more precipitation is scheduled for this week. A lot of tile got updated in our area last year following the flooding, which is proving advantageous early in the season. Are you looking for some early Christmas presents for the kids? Consider getting the family some farm tile. It can’t fit in a stocking, but you will need it eventually. My father installed a fancy 9-acre CRP waterway in one of my fields. Nothing says Christmas like the gift of CRP. It is not as shiny as a new gun, but it is being put to good use this season.   The only good thing about the heat threat this weekend was that it was brief. Temperatures are in retreat as it is replaced with more rainfall of 2″ to 4″ in the upper Grain Belt. The heat does linger in the Eastern Corn Belt with temperatures up to 7 degrees above average in Illinois, however, are closer to normal in Iowa and Western…