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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
Soyoil sales for the week ended Feb. 29 reached a marketing-year high of 29,200 MT, while soybean sales landed above pre-report estimates. Meanwhile, corn and wheat sales were within their respective pre-report ranges.
Corn, soybean and wheat weekly export inspections during the week ended Feb. 29 each fell from the previous week, though all were within pre-report expectations.
Weekly cotton sales during the week ended Feb. 22 were down 69% from the previous week and 83% from the four-week average. Meanwhile, corn, soybean and wheat sales each rose week-over-week.
Weekly corn inspections during the week ended Feb. 22 totaled 1.242 MMT, exceeding the pre-report range by over 91,000 MT and rose nearly 190,000 MT from the previous week.
Net soybean sales during the week ended Feb. 15 were down 84% from the previous week, while weekly corn and wheat sales were down 37% and 33%, respectively.
Weekly corn inspections during the week ended Feb. 15 rose a modest 26,000 MT, while soybean and wheat inspections declined on the week.
Weekly soymeal sales totaled 203,400 MT during the week ended Feb. 8, missing the pre-report range, while corn sales held steady at 1.31 MMT. Wheat and soybean sales were near the low-end of pre-report estimates.
For the week ended Feb., USDA showed corn and wheat inspections up 230,000 MT and 112,000 from the previous week, while soybean inspections fell 420,000 MT after a 320,000 MT upward revision to last week’s figure.
USDA showed soybean ending stocks rose 35 million bu. from January, while corn rose 10 million bu,. Meanwhile, 2023-24 global soybean carryover was notably higher than expectations.
During the week ended Feb. 1, USDA showed net soybean sales of 340,800 MT, short of pre-report estimates, while corn and wheat sales held steady week-over-week.