Unwind Beginning? 🌽📉

Funds trimmed ag longs last week after 8 straight weeks of buying.

But they're still sitting on $26.5B net long, near a 3-year high.

There's a real "what's next?" vibe across ag markets today.

#COT #AgMarkets #Grains #CommodityTrading

FUNDS BAILED: BEANS & CORN 🪂

Managed Money sold -101k contracts of agriculture futures (-$2.2B) in the COT week ended April 7, the largest hedge fund outflows since early January.

Soybeans and Corn led the exits. Bean Oil bucked the trend: Funds are now *record* long.

Full COT breakdown 👇

#COT #AgMarkets #Grains #CommodityTrading

#RockportME - 2nd Annual SEED FEST

April 11 @ 9:30 AM – 1:30 PM

"The #RockportPublicLibrary will host its second annual SEED FEST on Saturday, April 11. This free, family-friendly event will take place on the upper and lower levels of the library. From 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., visitors can browse educational exhibits and activities covering #SeedStarting, #pollinators, #SoilHealth, #Composting, #NativePlants, #HeirloomVegetables, growing #rice and #grains in #Maine, #Wabanaki #FoodSovereignty, and much more!

"At 12:30 p.m., Petra Page-Mann of #FruitionSeeds will deliver an interactive keynote presentation. Page-Mann and her nonprofit seed company are strong advocates of 'gift culture,' which involves giving away seeds to promote food cultivation and community building. This ethos aligns perfectly with the theme of SEED FEST.

"The event is generously sponsored by the Rockport Library Foundation and is organized in partnership with several organizations, listed alphabetically: Herbal Hummingbird Hub, Knox Lincoln County Beekeepers, Knox-Lincoln Soil and Water Conservation District, Maine Grains and Maine Grain Alliance, Maine Heirloom Seed Network, Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association [#MOFGA], #MaineRiceProject at Ararat Farms, #MerryspringNatureCenter, #Niweskok: From the Stars to Seeds, Roots n Shoots, #UMaineCooperativeExtension, and #WildSeedProject.

"The exhibiting partners will provide valuable information, hands-on activities, items for sale, and an abundance of free seeds and seedlings. Additionally, #midcoast artist Katharine Cartwright’s beautiful #BotanicalPaintings will be showcased in the library’s lower level for a month-long exhibition titled 'In My Garden.' "

FMI:
https://www.rockportlibrary.net/event/2nd-annual-seed-fest/

#SolarPunkSunday #BuildingCommunity #GrowYourOwnFood #GYO #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #FoodSovereignty #LibrariesRule #SeedFest #WabanakiFoodSovereignty #SoilIsLife

Land Design with a focus on autonomous living is more important than a vegetable #garden.

We are often told to avoid taking up space on staple crops in our gardens. They are really inexpensive right?

But vegetables make up about 5% of the average diet. #Grains, legumes, and for some #meat make up the rest.

If you want to "live off" a garden, growing staple crops (grains, potatoes, cabbage, beans, animals) is way more important than vegetables which should only take up 5% of your space.

CPH Metro

#byzelected #fujifilm #fujixm5 #denmark #danmark #copenhagen #photography #grains