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Hillari Mason

Market Analyst, Pro Farmer

Hillari grew up on a family farm in southern Illinois, where she learned to love agriculture and its lifestyle from a young age. Hillari graduated from Murray State University in 2012 and began working for Cargill as a grain merchandiser shortly thereafter. Her time there yielded expansive market knowledge, producer relationships and series 3 and 30 licenses. Hillari joined Pro Farmer in June 2022 and received her master of business administration from the University of Southern Indiana in 2023. Hillari lives on her own farm in southern Indiana and spends the bulk of her days studying futures markets.

Latest Stories
Corn, soybean wheat inspections each faded from the previous week, but were within the range of analysts’ pre-report expectations.
New crop corn sales exceeded pre-report expectations by more than 400,000 MT during the week ended Aug. 29, while soybean sales were also notable at 1.66 MMT.
Weekly soybean inspections rose 77,000 MT from the previous week, just shy of topping the upper-end of analysts’ pre-report expectations.
Scouts measured average corn yield potential of 192.79 bu. per acre. Pod counts in a 3’x3’ square averaged 1,312.31.
Scouts measured average corn yield potential of 164.9 bu. per acre. Pod counts in a 3’x3’ square averaged 1,036.59.
Weekly corn and soybean sales during the week ended Aug. 15 each topped pre-report expectations at 1.3 MMT and 1.7 MMT, respectively.
Scouts measured average corn yield potential of 204.14 bu. per acre for Illinois. Pod counts in a 3’x3’ square averaged 1419.11.
Scouts took samples from Iowa districts 1, 4 and 7. Iowa’s full results will be posted at the end of day 4.
Scouts measured average corn yield potential of 173.25 bu. per acre. Pod counts in a 3’x3’ square averaged 1,172.48.
Scouts measured average corn yield potential of 187.54 bu. per acre. Pod counts in a 3’x3’ square averaged 1,409.02.