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Plan for the ‘Silly Season’

Ag Marketing IQ: Make grain market decisions now – in the calm before the storm – to help steer your strategy through the volatile crop insurance trough and leave you free to focus on planting your 2025 corn and soybean crops.

We’ve made it through the crop insurance averaging month of February, and hopefully, the long days of winter are behind us. The next month serves as the on ramp to the busy part of the growing season.

As one colleague used to say, it’s the start of “Silly Season”—a time when markets can experience intensified volatility during the U.S. growing season. This period begins between February, the first crop insurance averaging month, and can extend to, or even through, October’s fall averaging period.

Here are some key market drivers to watch in the coming season:

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