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Farms.com Countdown Calendar Connects Generations

by Denise Faguy, Farms.com

You may not be an online gamer, but you are aware that the young people in your life enjoy the online world. That’s why the team at Farms.com is once again delighted to share our holiday countdown calendar.  Simple enough for non-gamers, fun enough for all.

For the past several years, the team at Farms.com has had great fun during the holidays developing our Christmas online games.  We are pleased once again to showcase a variety of these games in our countdown calendar.  The team at Farms.com invites you to bookmark and visit the calendar each day to reveal the “game of the day”.  Each day when you click on the appropriate day on the online calendar it will reveal a new family-friendly online game that you can share with family and friends. 

“It’s our gift to the farming community,” says Farms.com President Graham Dyer.  “I am proud to have so many talented people on the Farms.com team.  Our marketing team comes up with the concepts, creative team makes the ideas beautiful and usable, the programming team makes everything work together, and finally the hosting team puts the calendar on the site for everyone in the farming community to enjoy.  Happy Holidays from everyone in the Farms.com family to yours.”

The final reveal on the calendar will help everyone track Santa’s journey as he makes his way distributing gifts around the world. Follow us on twitter to link to the calendar each day.

Visit the countdown calendar each day to see a new online holiday game.


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The 12-day war between Iran-Israel came to an end sending crude oil futures plunging as the big fund speculators removed the war risk premium.

The weather risk premium in the Ag complex is sending corn, wheat and soybean futures lower on month-end selling ahead of the market moving USDA quarterly grain stocks and acreage reports on June 30th.

Instead, funds were chasing and sending tech stocks higher with the S&P 500/NASDAQ indexes setting new all-time record highs!

June 1 USDA Hogs and pigs report was slightly bearish while the U.S. $ Index traded to new contract lows as the de-dollarization that began in 2014 continues.

Feed in the form of soybean meal futures for livestock producers got cheaper, trading to new contract lows.

The Stats Canada seeded acreage update was bullish canola and wheat.