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Arlan Suderman 

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Grain Market Analyst for Farm Futures magazine & FarmFutures.com EMAW

RT @wellsnw: Video of Rootless Corn Syndrome Washington Co Iowa 2012(sound sucks at first due to wind): http://t.co/zSzatP8W
02:07:37 PM May 25 from TweetDeck

Reuters reports USDA seeking public comment on changing report release times; as such, will not change for now $ZC_F #farm
02:00:29 PM May 25 from TweetDeck

Market will be watching next week's rains when traders return Tues; Outlook goes warm & dry again after next system for Midwest $ZC_F #farm
01:29:52 PM May 25 from TweetDeck

Corn up 1-6, beans up 6-12, wheat up 15 $ZC_F $ZS_F $ZW_F #farm
01:18:54 PM May 25 from TweetDeck

LOL RT @Weydert: @ArlanFF101 my friends and I play a little game called guess when the mkt is gonna be open.too bad nobody wins
12:50:24 PM May 25 from TweetDeck

Satellite Imagery Shows the Good and the Bad for crop development - see the pics $ZC_F #farm http://t.co/4skaLdOY
12:49:03 PM May 25 from TweetDeck

Wheat sees technical buying; corn, beans see strength in deferred; corn up 1-5, beans up 7-11, wheat up 19 $ZC_F $ZS_F $ZW_F #farm
11:06:17 AM May 25 from TweetDeck

Read #Farm Futures' @CMEGroup CME Group Alters Hours…Again http://t.co/MpeDBI6n
11:03:49 AM May 25 from TweetDeck

@BLL141CBOT @farmerfuss I see great opportunities in agriculture in yrs ahead, but you're going to have to be smart/disciplined to benefit
08:51:41 PM May 24 from TweetDeck

Grains easing off early highs; corn up 6 to up 3 in Dec; beans up 2 to stdy in Nov; wht up 3 $ZC_F $ZS_F #farm
05:17:35 PM May 24 from TweetDeck

Grain prices pushing higher in early trade this PM; corn up 7 to Dec up 3, beans up 4 to Nov up 20, wheat up 3 $ZC_F $ZS_F $ZW_F #farm
05:07:32 PM May 24 from TweetDeck

Corn hit its session low just ahead of settlement; corn is currently down 23, beans up 17, wheat mxd $ZC_F $ZS_F $ZW_F #farm
01:23:04 PM May 24 from TweetDeck

Buenos Aires Grain Exchange cuts Argentine soy crop to 39.9 mmt; corn at 19.3 mmt; USDA is at 42.5 & 21.5 mmt respectively $ZC_F $ZS_F #farm
12:44:56 PM May 24 from TweetDeck

Easy to focus on exports that are just 15% of corn demand RT @Grainmonster: @ArlanFF101 Rationing domestic demand is the issue #corn
11:35:24 AM May 24 from TweetDeck

Soybean export sales to date exceed seasonal pace needed to hit USDA target by 55 mln bu & gap rapidly growing $ZS_F #farm
11:34:42 AM May 24 from TweetDeck

Soybean export sales to date now exceed USDA's target w 3 months left in the marketing year $ZS_F #farm
11:34:14 AM May 24 from TweetDeck

Corn export sales to date match seasonal pace needed to reach target, but sales are losing ground; had been ahead of pace $ZC_F #farm
11:30:32 AM May 24 from TweetDeck

corn drops on exports, but bounces back; beans, wheat rise on exports; corn up 5, beans up 20, wht up 8 $ZC_F $ZS_F $ZW_F #farm
08:32:38 AM May 24 from TweetDeck

Weekly old-crop soybean sales at unsustainable pace - over 29 mln bu $ZS_F #farm
07:33:03 AM May 24 from TweetDeck

Livestock producers know that a ration is only as good as the ingredients that go into it. Qual-ity varies considerably from one feed source to another, making it difficult to manage costs. How-ever, the University of Illinois developed a spreadsheet that allows you to calculate costs per pound of energy and crude protein on a dry matter basis, minus storage loss and transportation costs. The spreadsheet also calculates the relative value of different feed ingredients.

We’ve chosen the spreadsheet as our Farm Futures Spreadsheet of the Month. The 986-kilobyte spreadsheet should work with Excel 2000, 2002 or Excel XP. You can download it by clicking on the link below.

Do you have a spreadsheet that’s made a difference on your operation that you’d be willing to share with other readers? Drop us a line at FarmFutures@farmprogress.com with a de-scription of the spreadsheet. We’ll pay $75 if we feature your farmer-written non-commercial pro-gram as our Spreadsheet of the Month.