The corn and soybeans storage returns articles examine long run averages. These can be somewhat misleading when there is a lot of variation from year to year. For this reason we are providing a peek at the weekly speculative on-farm corn returns data for the last ten years.

Grain storage is an important marketing function that provides “time value” to the grain. Grain production occurs at harvest time, but usage is spread throughout the marketing year. Thus storage is required to remove the harvest surplus and then to allocate that surplus to users in an orderly manner until the next harvest.