Weekly basis analysis and WASDE intelligence for grain elevator operators, ag lenders, and feed mill managers — delivered automatically, every week, for $69/month.
Bloomberg Terminal costs $25,000 per year. ProFarmer runs $400. These tools were built for trading desks and producers — not the grain elevator manager or ag lender who needs the same basis context every single week to make storage and lending decisions.
Basis Brief closes that gap. Automated USDA data monitoring, basis trend analysis, and plain-English WASDE synthesis — delivered weekly to your inbox for less than the cost of a lunch meeting.
Our agent pulls USDA AMS cash prices from hundreds of delivery points and CME settlement prices every trading day. No manual collection. No missed data.
Within 90 minutes of each WASDE release, you receive a plain-English summary of the key supply/demand revisions for corn, soybeans, and wheat — and what they mean for basis direction.
Every Thursday, a 5-minute digest lands in your inbox: regional basis vs. historical range, futures snapshot, crop progress context, and a bottom-line read for your specific position.
Each weekly digest is structured for the practitioner — not the analyst. Market snapshot, basis watch for your delivery region, WASDE context when relevant, and a plain-English bottom line for each commodity you track.
No charts to interpret. No data to pull. Just the numbers and the context that answer the question you're asking every week.
Corn: Basis is running 9 cents stronger than the 5-year average — commercial demand is absorbing available supply ahead of spring planting. Producers with unpriced old crop bushels are in a favorable window. Watch the April 9 WASDE for any revision to the ending stocks estimate.
Independent country elevators making daily storage and merchandising decisions. Know where your regional basis stands versus historical range — and what the latest WASDE revision means for carry and inverse market structure.
Loan officers and portfolio managers covering grain operations and row crop producers. Understand the price risk environment your borrowers are operating in without becoming commodity analysts yourself.
Grain buyers for livestock and poultry operations managing corn and soybean meal procurement. Stay current on basis direction and supply/demand fundamentals to time your forward contract decisions.
Mid-market food manufacturers purchasing corn, wheat, and soy derivatives. Get the commodity market context behind your ingredient cost exposure — without subscribing to institutional data feeds.
WASDE Flash alerts for national corn, soybean, and wheat markets.
Weekly grain basis digest + WASDE Flash. Four-state Midwest coverage.
A practitioner-grade audio curriculum covering grain basis mechanics, WASDE interpretation, and physical market structure — built for elevator operators, ag lenders, and feed mill managers who need the context, not just the data.
Seven episodes. 3 hours 43 minutes. Everything you need to understand why basis is the only number that determines whether your operation made money this week.
Explore the series →Each WASDE Flash is published within two hours of the USDA release and archived here permanently. Free to read — no account required.
USDA formally acknowledged tariff-driven soybean export destruction with a 35-million-bushel export cut, offset by higher domestic crush demand. Corn held flat despite record March 1 stocks. Wheat carryout raised to 938 million bushels on a minor use reduction.
USDA declined to adjust export forecasts in corn or soybeans despite divergent signals from the physical market — corn commitments running 31% above year-ago pace, soybean sales running 18% behind.
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