What’s important to the farmer when it comes to crop production? Getting things done. That’s why River Valley Cooperative’s agronomy experts spend most of their time in the country throughout eastern Iowa and western Illinois, working one-on-one with growers.
Whether you need gasoline to keep you rolling, propane to keep you warm or dry your crops, lubricants and oils to keep your machinery running efficiently, or diesel to run your farm equipment, River Valley Cooperative has you covered.
While River Valley Cooperative supplies high-quality livestock feed to producers in eastern Iowa and western Illinois, we're also focused on providing safe, healthy food from farm to the table.
If you’re going to take full advantage of high grain prices, it helps to have a partner who can help you navigate today’s volatile grain markets.
These are the forward-thinking owner-customers of River Valley Cooperative. While they share a love for the land, not all are traditional producers.
Our motto of “Your Success, Our Future” extends to our employees. We firmly believe our employees are the key to our success. We provide personal and team development opportunities to give our employees the skills and tools they need to do their job and thrive in their job and personal life.
Lite short covering continues this morning as the extended forecasts dry out, but are cool. Market was able to scratch above some important technical points this week, causing additional short covering. Funds still estimated short 125k corn and 70k beans, so there is more room for more. China sold 1.1 MMT of Reserve corn overnight, again only 28% of what was offered, and considerably cheaper than recent sales too, down to $5.30 per bushel. Previous sales have been in the upper $5’s closer to $6. Our export corn offers remain competitive, so subsequent export sales Reports should be good. We need to get past Monday though, as the last several Monday’s have been pretty tough on the market. No additional political news, although Trump keeps upping the ante on Chinese goods that could have tariffs applied. China media now has a new cartoon character called “the Soybean” that pokes back at Trump and the potential trade war. You really can’t make some of this stuff up! Here’s the link if you would like to see it: https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414e7a45544f78457a6333566d54/share_p.html Outside markets see the Dollar down 20, Dow futures down 85, Gold, crude oil and palm oil steady. Europe wheat and corn both up about a nickel on dry weather there. Dalian beans steady to slightly higher, meal up over $5 per tonne and corn steady to slightly weaker. Iowa unfortunately is making the national news this morning with major tornado damage in Marshalltown, Pella and Bondurant.