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August 5, 2025

 

Corn and Soy Continuing Their Collapse into NEW LOWS AGAIN

And I think…ACCELERATING From Here

 

Point Blank: I said it back in January…that the World’s Biggest Grain and Soybean importer is NOT going to kowtow to Herr Trump’s policy threats and absurdly high tariffs…So here we are 7 months later and the White House is still “waiting by the phone,” while China is making agricultural import deals with everybody else on the planet…except the USA. Meanwhile, without China as a buyer, Corn, Wheat and Soybean prices here have all been in bear markets…and notably, of late, with massive crop harvests ahead, are now beginning what I truly believe could be an unrelenting NOSEDIVE down to prices that will be (and already are) DEVASTATING for our nation’s farmers.

 

I am not just some sort of perennial bear, but with the May, 2022 invasion of Ukraine, with crop prices then leaping through the roof, I began predicting a severe 2-3 year bear market in Corn, Wheat and Soybeans…which I do believe (3 years later) is now nearing its end…BUT…I still think the last, and WORST stage is dead in front of us…with Corn and Soybeans potentially trading under $3.00 & $9.00 respectively. And no, prices won’t be there long before they bounce back up above those big round numbers…But they also won’t be going anywhere significant on the upside for quite some time either…regardless of when China DOES come in and scoop them up at what might be the lowest prices in 10 years…thanks to you-know-who…as crop market bottoms usually take, minimally, a year or so before they start a new bullish phase…AND WHILE THAT YEAR OR SO PASSES, MY GUESS IS FARMERS WILL BE SUFFERING BIGTIME…PERHAPS AS BADLY AS THEY DID DURING THE MID-1980’S WHEN SMALL FARMERS WERE GOING UNDER LEFT AND RIGHT…I have no doubt that Trump will write them all checks (same as he did when tariffs killed ag prices in his first administration) but even so, $3.00 Corn and $9.00 Beans will still have all those hardworking farmers operating in nothing more than survival mode.

 

WITH NEW LOWS IN CORN AND WHEAT TODAY, AND SOYBEANS JUST TWO CENTS AWAY FROM THE SAME, I CONTINUE TO RECOMMEND BEING SHORT CORN AND SOYBEANS.

 

I AM RELATIVELY CERTAIN, THAT WITH EVERY NEW LOW PRICES NOW MAKE, MORE AND MORE WORRIED FARMERS, WATCHING DOLLARS EVAPORATE IN THEIR BINS, ARE BEING SCARED INTO SELLING…AND THEY ARE ALL DOING IT TOGETHER, WHICH DOES CREATE SOMETHING OF AN AVALANCHE OF SELLING…AND DOES TURN INTO A FALLING KNIFE MARKET THAT DOES, AS I KEEP SAYING, GO FURTHER THAN ANYONE THINKS POSSIBLE.

 

 

 

I might be dead wrong, but I do think we ARE now entering the biggest, fastest phase of the Corn and Soybean Bear Markets…And having done this for a long while, I KNOW that this is NOT the sort of trade most people are ever willing to take, but from a totally objective trading standpoint, it IS almost the most obvious and EASIEST trade that you ever get. Again, this doesn’t mean it will work but I WILL TAKE THESE ODDS…Breaking into new lows out of lengthy consolidation…during which time just about every analyst on the planet has been talking the bull side? GET SHORT!

 

This IS just starting…Call if you want a piece of it…

 

Thanks,

Bill

 

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All option prices in this newsletter include all fees and commissions. All charts, unless otherwise noted, are by Aspen Graphics and CRB.

 

FUTURES TRADING IS NOT FOR EVERYONE. THE RISK OF LOSS IN TRADING CAN BE SUBSTANTIAL. THEREFORE, CAREFULLY CONSIDER WHETHER SUCH TRADING IS SUITABLE FOR YOU IN LIGHT OF YOUR FINANCIAL CONDITION. PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS. THERE IS NO GUARANTEE YOUR TRADING EXPERIENCE WILL BE SIMILAR TO PAST PERFORMANCE.

 

The author of this piece currently trades for his own account and has a financial interest in the following derivative products mentioned within: Corn, Soybeans, Soybean Oil