Monthly, mid-month. Milk and dairy class prices, grain and cotton futures, the WASDE, fuel, irrigation district allocations and groundwater, and the Valley weather outlook - the numbers a Central Valley operation actually budgets against.
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California diesel set an all-time record of $8.14 a gallon on September 14, up more than $1.50 in five weeks, and December corn has run back over $5.30 with soybean meal at $350 a ton. Cheese blocks closed $1.42 while nonfat dry milk pushed to $1.995, and the Climate Prediction Center now puts a very strong El Nino above 90 percent for October through December.
An El Niño winter may shorten the post-harvest window. Class I skim drops $2.73, CVP allocation raised, corn $4.48, wheat $6.52.
Corn around $4.38, wheat $6.32, Class III at $16.15, California diesel about $6.07, plus the water situation and Central Valley weather.
Cheese and butter mixed, corn around $4.35, wheat $5.52, and California diesel at $7.89.
Strong production keeps futures capped near $16.00, and California diesel hits an all-time high at $7.73.