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Don’t Wait for USDA to Surprise You

Ag Marketing IQ: Monday’s Prospective Plantings report can create a price storm. Farmers can prep this week to shore up their strategy by locking in prices and putting options and futures to work.

It’s time to prepare for grain market reaction to USDA’s Prospective Plantings report, which provides the USDA’s first survey-based estimate for 2025 crop acreage. What do we expect from the March 31 report? And what strategies can a farmer put in place to help weather a price storm following the release?

Let’s first look at the Prospective Plantings report.

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