01/28/2026 Screwed Again and Again but we Vote for them Anyway

01/28/2026 Screwed Again and Again but we Vote for them Anyway PLEASE REFER TO THE BROKER COMMENTARY PAGE FOR UPDATES!! Click Above to Watch Brian’s Afternoon Market Update The US House passed a spending bill that did not include either additional farm aid or nationwide year-around E-15. I was not surprised about the lack of additional aid payments. While representatives of both parties proposed competing additional spending proposals, the powers that be oppose it. We get our $12 bln bridge aid and there will be farm program ARC/PLC payments coming later in October. That will be all that we can count on. However, it is an election year so they still may try to buy votes with additional aid, but it will likely come later in the year on their time schedule rather than when it is needed. The AFBF did a good job of explaining that there are substantive uncovered losses in all crops by these payments, but farmers are likely going to have to eat them. Some argue that if the government covers all of the losses, then the market doesn’t work.  Low prices signal overproduction and a need to reduce acres. That will not happen if losses from low…