Your markets, on your phone.
For when you're in the cab, the shop or the sale barn instead of at a computer at 10 and 2.
- A 6 AM farm text. Before the email even exists: today's weather for your ZIP, your elevators' cash bids from last night, the last official closes and the USDA reports coming out today.
- Your elevators' cash price. Pick up to 3 places you sell. Every weekday evening we text the cash price there from USDA's bids, and we text you when one hits your number.
- Your own time. One text at the half hour you pick, 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM CT: yesterday's official settlements, what's moving today and why, anything new from USDA, and your elevators' cash price.
- What your crop is worth today. Tell us your unsold bushels once; every text shows their value at today's local cash price and how that compares with a year ago.
- Best price near you. The highest cash bids within 100 miles, from elevators, ethanol plants and processors (text BEST CORN).
- Your weather and your basis. Today's forecast for your ZIP, and your state's basis vs last week and a year ago.
- You pick what's in your texts. Official closing prices, your elevators, the cash price near your ZIP, your state's average, the national average, cash cattle and hogs, dairy, the news and USDA reports. Turn each on or off any time (text SHOW).
- Breaking news. When a big story hits your markets (China buying, tariffs, screwworm, bird flu, biofuel rules), a text with why it matters. Two a day at most.
- USDA numbers minutes after they post. WASDE, Crop Progress, export shipments, Cattle on Feed, Hogs and Pigs, only for the markets you follow.
- Price targets and big-move alerts, checked against the official settlement USDA prints each afternoon (grains, cattle and dairy). Text "DEC CORN 5.25" to set one.
- What matters today at the top of every text and email, in three lines or less.
- Text, email or both, and live prices on the website one tap away.
- Pick exactly which texts you get. Cancel anytime.
Examples only. Numbers and stories change every day.
Why farmers pick Daily Commodity Wire
- Local, in every state. The cash price near your ZIP, the best bid within 100 miles and your state's basis, next to the national market. Not just Chicago.
- Your numbers, not generic advice. What your unsold bushels are worth today, your % sold and average price vs your cost, your own targets, a put or call priced by text.
- No conflict of interest. We don't sell trades, seed or inputs, and we don't make money when you trade. We never tell you to buy or sell.
- Checked before it's sent. Every number has a government source, every report is checked before it goes out, and every correction is public on our accuracy page.
- Livestock as deep as grain. Cash cattle and hogs, LRP prices, the screwworm border and dairy, not an afterthought.
- Fair price. Texts from $9.99 a month, and the email is free. Most market services run $400 to $2,000 a year.
What comes by text
Every text is short, made for a phone, and only about the markets you pick. Turn any of these on or off any time.
Your 6 AM farm text
Every weekday about 6 AM
Before the email even goes out. What you need to plan the day, in one text.
Your market text
10:00 AM, 2:00 PM, or a time you pick
Official closes, the cash price near your ZIP, the best bid within 100 miles and the news behind each market. This one is real, from USDA's Tue closes.
Today's closes
About 5 PM, once USDA prints them
The 2:00 report can only carry yesterday's official close. This text gives you today's the same evening.
Your elevators
Every weekday evening
Pick up to 3 places you sell, from the bids map or by texting ELEVATOR and your town.
Your price targets
The day your number hits
Set a target for futures or your elevator's cash price. One text when it's hit, then it's cleared.
USDA numbers
Minutes after USDA posts them
WASDE, Crop Progress, export sales, Cattle on Feed, Hogs and Pigs. Plus a heads-up the morning of a big report.
Breaking news
When it happens, two a day at most
China buying, tariffs, screwworm, bird flu, biofuel rules. Only for your markets.
Ask, and get an answer
Any time, day or night
Also: CORN for the latest price, BIDS and your ZIP, PLAN for your % sold, SHOW to change what you get.
Alerts you can add
Only when something happens
Plus Monday's week ahead, Friday's recap, the drought map for your county and a 2-minute marketing lesson on Wednesdays.
Examples showing what each text covers. Real texts carry that day's official numbers, with the source and the date.