- I've been tracking the similarity in the corn markets' (cash and futures) price trends from 2010-2014 and 2020-2024.
- Meanwhile, the Kansas City Royals have also been following a similar path to a decade ago, dominated by futility interspersed with sudden bursts of winning.
- Putting aside hard-hitting analysis for a moment, there is a connection between King Corn and the Royals.
Some of you may recall I grew up on wheat farm in southern Kansas[i]. My summer nights were spent listening to the Kansas City Royals (Major League Baseball team) while sitting in a truck waiting for Dad to come around to unload the combine[ii]. Later, the games would be on the radio in the office of the branch elevator[iii] of the local cooperative I worked at meaning I would catch bits and pieces of the games between dumping trucks. The voices of Denny Matthews and Fred White coming across on the am radio a constant back in the day. This was also the point in my life when farmers, while sitting in line waiting to unload, would often ask what the markets were doing. This connection stayed with me, to the point when I began working with seasonal analysis I eventually found a connection between the Royals success (or lack thereof) and King Corn’s trends.
