News Announcements
Ludlow Coop is Offering Free Delayed Pricing on Corn & Soybean Deliveries
CORN deliveries beginning 1-14-26 are eligible for:
Delayed Pricing – FREE moisture averaged by farm ID (within a 30 day delivery period) and shrunk to 15.0% FREE DP is until 2:00 p.m. on 8-31-26, new 2026 crop rates will go into effect at that time.
CORN deliveries beginning 1-14-26 are eligible for:
Open Storage – moisture averaged by farm ID (within a 30 day delivery period) and shrunk to 14.0% charges of NO drop charge and .0012 cent per bushel per day (3.5 cents per month) thru 8-31-26, new 2026 crop rates will go into effect at that time.
BEAN deliveries beginning 1-14-26 are eligible for:
Delayed Pricing – FREE NO MOISTURE AVERAGING (within a 30 day delivery period) and shrunk to 13.0% FREE DP is until 2:00 p.m. on 8-31-26, new 2026 crop rates will go into effect at that time.
BEAN deliveries beginning 1-14-26 are eligible for:
Open Storage – NO MOISTURE AVERAGING (within a 30 day delivery period) and shrunk to 13.0% charges of NO drop charge and .0012 cent per bushel per day (3.5 cents per month) thru 8-31-26, new 2026 crop rates will go into effect at that time.
SPACE AS AVAILABLE FOR CORN & BEANS
Time to Begin Marketing for the 2026 Crop Year with the Average Pricing Program
Why Choose the Average Pricing Program?
- Build a solid base for your 2026 crop marketing plan.
- Capture seasonal highs: Historically, January through June offers the strongest pricing opportunities.
- Flexibility: Commit only 20–35% of an average crop, leaving room for additional marketing.
- Take the emotion out of pricing—a great option for landlords.
- No enrollment cost.
- Extended marketing window: Sell ahead instead of after harvest (19 months vs. 9 months).
Ludlow Coop’s Average Pricing Program
Set Weeks: February 11 – June 24, 2026
- Weekly pricing every Wednesday at noon.
- 20 weeks total; final price is the average of all weekly pricings.
- Based on December (CZ26) corn futures and November (SX26) bean futures.
- Contracts are for Fall 2026 delivery.
- Sign-up deadline: Tuesday, February 10, 2026. Contract must be signed and received before start date.
Patron’s Choice Average Pricing Contract
Your Choice of Consecutive Weeks
- Weekly pricing every Wednesday at noon.
- Choose any consecutive weeks between January 14 – August 26, 2026.
- Based on CZ26 corn futures and SX26 bean futures.
- Contracts are for Fall 2026 delivery.
Ready to Enroll?
Contact your settlement location with:
- Number of bushels
- Chosen dates (for Patron’s Choice)
- Delivery location
Ludlow Coop Offices:
- Buckley: (217) 394-2331
- Danforth: (815) 269-2390
- Ludlow: (217) 396-4111
- Piper City: (815) 707-3347
- Goodwine: (815) 457-2880
2025-2026 Board Members Elected
This is the list of the newly elected board members who will be serving for the 2025/2026 fiscal year.
Roger Gustafson (Paxton) – President
Kenny During (Rantoul)– Vice President
Robert Schmid (Buckley)– Secretary
Cory Roelfs (Rantoul)– Treasurer
Steve Glazik (Paxton)
Dan Kief (Loda)
Jeff McGehee (Onarga)
Brent Neukomm (Cissna Park)
Jim Niewold (Loda)
Mike Otto (Buckley)
Pat Quinlan (Ludlow)
2025-2026 Drying and Storage Rates
We have posted the current rates for drying and storage grain on our website.
Please visit our Crop Policy Service Rates page for Corn and Soybeans to plan for your storage and drying needs for this harvest season.
Please call the office if you have questions: 217-396-4111
The Grainery Newsletters
5/22/26 MIDCO AFTERNOON COMMENTS
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🌽 Corn Market Update
Friday trade in the corn market was quietly higher throughout most of the day session to end the week, with volume limited and price action generally slow into the weekend. If you've been reading all week, probably not a lot of need to continue as market themes on Friday continued to be largely the same as they were all week. As far as the crop goes, there will be flooding concerns in the southern part of the Corn Belt next week but the bulk of the heaviest moisture stays further south, meaning weather continues to be generally favorable. There are local scattered pockets of too wet/too dry, but overall, weather to this point, though it is obviously still early, would argue for trendline yields. Otherwise, it's a combination of war in Iran, the prospect of Chinese buying, and E-15 related biofuel demand that likely continue to drive the market.
🌱 Soybean Market Update
Like corn, it was a low-volume, quietly higher day in the soy complex to end the week on Friday, with bean futures not trading more than a 2-3 cent range for the majority of the day session while meal was similarly sideways and the oil saw selling pressure emerge later in the day with the energy markets. With little to nothing new as far as details go out of China, traders have been somewhat loathe to continue sitting on their fairly hefty long position this week, which has produced a lot of the headwinds in the space. China will likely never come out and say they made any sort of a deal both because of what it would do to markets and because of it would to do public sentiment, but traders are going to need some sort of sign that the Chinese actually intend on taking 25 MMTs of US soybeans over the next year before running the market to new highs on what is becoming old news.
🌾 Wheat Market Update
The wheat market was the laggard of the bunch on Friday, closing moderately lower on a lack of news, volume and interest on the part of most anyone. The bullish bite of the crop loss story in the US seems to have run it's course at least for the time being, which has led to a gradual removal of premium in the space the last couple days.
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News Announcements
5/22/26 MIDCO AFTERNOON COMMENTS
🌽 Corn Market Update
Friday trade in the corn market was quietly higher throughout most of the day session to end the week, with volume limited and price action generally slow into the weekend. If you've been reading all week, probably not a lot of need to continue as market themes on Friday continued to be largely the same as they were all week. As far as the crop goes, there will be flooding concerns in the southern part of the Corn Belt next week but the bulk of the heaviest moisture stays further south, meaning weather continues to be generally favorable. There are local scattered pockets of too wet/too dry, but overall, weather to this point, though it is obviously still early, would argue for trendline yields. Otherwise, it's a combination of war in Iran, the prospect of Chinese buying, and E-15 related biofuel demand that likely continue to drive the market.
🌱 Soybean Market Update
Like corn, it was a low-volume, quietly higher day in the soy complex to end the week on Friday, with bean futures not trading more than a 2-3 cent range for the majority of the day session while meal was similarly sideways and the oil saw selling pressure emerge later in the day with the energy markets. With little to nothing new as far as details go out of China, traders have been somewhat loathe to continue sitting on their fairly hefty long position this week, which has produced a lot of the headwinds in the space. China will likely never come out and say they made any sort of a deal both because of what it would do to markets and because of it would to do public sentiment, but traders are going to need some sort of sign that the Chinese actually intend on taking 25 MMTs of US soybeans over the next year before running the market to new highs on what is becoming old news.
🌾 Wheat Market Update
The wheat market was the laggard of the bunch on Friday, closing moderately lower on a lack of news, volume and interest on the part of most anyone. The bullish bite of the crop loss story in the US seems to have run it's course at least for the time being, which has led to a gradual removal of premium in the space the last couple days.
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