Originally Posted by ghak99:
If my local ethanol plant shuts down, I'm absolutely fucked. I have no idea how I'll source enough affordable protein to cover the loss of byproduct.
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
I presume no bean crush plants around?
There's one that's not too far away, but it's twice the haul, 1/3 more expensive, and would require adding water back into the ration. The ethanol plants have just spoiled us and it would be a terrible time to try to pencil in the extra input costs.
Gas is below $1 in several places here, so who knows how long the local plant will hold out. If it gets real ugly, I guess I could try roasting some of our own beans. Never even seen it done though, so I'm sure it'd be a disaster. [Reply]
I would be really surprised to not see some of the powerful companies with cash hoards start buying up some of the ones getting clobbered in this market.
Warren Buffet must be salivating right now. [Reply]
Originally Posted by RunKC:
“ One year ago today, oil was trading near $70 / barrel. Today it's been as low as $.06. Yes, 6 cents for a barrel of oil.”
Originally Posted by Hog's Gone Fishin:
Drugmaker Moderna has shipped its first batch of a possible coronavirus vaccine for humans to government researchers for testing.
Shares of the biotech company soared early Tuesday, a day after the company said it sent vials to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for early-stage testing in the United States.
More than 80,000 people have been infected globally from the viral outbreak that began late last year in China. A total of 35 cases have been reported in the United States.
More than 2,600 people have died from the virus in mainland China, including one U.S. citizen.
Shares of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Moderna Inc. jumped nearly 16%, or $2.92, to $21.51 in premarket trading.
The stock started trading in late 2018 and set an all-time high price of $29.79 last April, according to FactSet.
I'm up 117 percent on MRNA since this post convinced me to buy some. I owe Hog a beer again.
I sure wish I hadn't panicked and sold 90 percent of it a week after I bought it. [Reply]
So the front month of Crude closed at -37.63/brl. Yes. That is NEGATIVE. To my knowledge commodities haven’t went negative.
My buddy is the CEO at the coop and his broker is pretty connected. (I’m assuming it came from his broker) said that it was an ETF that held all the contracts that got slaughtered. I’m sure now is normally a perfectly acceptable time to get out of the front month unless it’s May 2020 contract.
Just one of many reasons not to I Evers anything in ETF of commodity markets. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
So the front month of Crude closed at -37.63/brl. Yes. That is NEGATIVE. To my knowledge commodities haven’t went negative.
My buddy is the CEO at the coop and his broker is pretty connected. (I’m assuming it came from his broker) said that it was an ETF that held all the contracts that got slaughtered. I’m sure now is normally a perfectly acceptable time to get out of the front month unless it’s May 2020 contract.
Just one of many reasons not to I Evers anything in ETF of commodity markets.
With negative oil prices, I've settled on a new career path. I'm going to buy the biggest gas-guzzling RV that I can find, and I'll make a fortune driving around the country.
If I drive 55 miles per hour and get 5 miles to the gallon, then every hour on the road will consume 11 gallons of oil and give me $410 in income. I'll drive 40 hours a week and gross $16,000. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ghak99:
There's one that's not too far away, but it's twice the haul, 1/3 more expensive, and would require adding water back into the ration. The ethanol plants have just spoiled us and it would be a terrible time to try to pencil in the extra input costs.
Gas is below $1 in several places here, so who knows how long the local plant will hold out. If it gets real ugly, I guess I could try roasting some of our own beans. Never even seen it done though, so I'm sure it'd be a disaster.
Heh. Take video. I’d be interested to see if it worked.
RE: margins. I feel you. Mine are ass but nothing like bloodbath you cow guys are taking. Dads got a field next to this little feedyard this guy runs. 1000 head or something. Anyway I roll in there with my sprayer and see this cow by the chute. So I call him and make sure he knows and I’m not going to spook her to hell and gone. He answers and I ask how he’s doing. His response is: “well, the markets are closed.” :-)
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
With negative oil prices, I've settled on a new career path. I'm going to buy the biggest gas-guzzling RV that I can find, and I'll make a fortune driving around the country.
If I drive 55 miles per hour and get 5 miles to the gallon, then every hour on the road will consume 11 gallons of oil and give me $410 in income. I'll drive 40 hours a week and gross $16,000.
June futures are still 20.43. Fairly certain you won’t be selling the opportunity to offload physical oil. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
Hey, do I destroy YOUR dreams?
No. But the market does regularly. So you’re not alone there. And as much as I killed your dreams, at least you’re not holding a bunch of long contracts $20 crude oil and sit through a -$57 day. [Reply]
