Recent chatter that cotton acres will decline by 10-15 percent this year also suggests many of those will go to corn, leaving that crop's acreage nearly unchanged from 2014. We aren't buying into that argument just yet for several reasons.It's been a long and quiet week in both the markets and market-making (or breaking) news, but here are some things to keep you up at night:

Do you ever wonder why weather services issue special weather bulletins headlining that cold temperatures might cause damage to winter wheat and then the story itself says there will probably not be any damage? I guess it's slow these days for everyone. It is going to get cold a long ways south and east over the next several days, and there is little snow cover, as...