The Daily Board is the prior session's close, written before the next open. Each line names the contract, the price, the change, and the percent. Canola is in Canadian dollars per tonne. CBOT grains are in U.S. cents per bushel. A dagger means the print is preliminary, not the official settle.
What the page is
The Daily Board is a free morning brief from Klarenbach Research. It tells you where the board closed and why. It is not a sale ticket. The Klarenbach Grain Report is the technical layer: charts, targets, and the plan. This page is the key to the print.
The contract month
Every futures line names a month. Dec corn is the December corn contract. Nov canola is the November ICE contract. The nearby month is the one the trade is using, not a promise that your elevator is bidding that month.
When the month changes, the price level can jump even if the market did not. That is a roll, not a rally. Read the month before you read the change.
Dollars, cents, and tonnes
Do not mix the units.
Canola: Canadian dollars per tonne on ICE Futures (RS).
Corn, soybeans, wheat, oats: U.S. cents per bushel. 500.75 corn is 500.75 cents, or $5.0075 a bushel.
Soybean meal: U.S. dollars per short ton.
Soybean oil: U.S. cents per pound.
WTI crude: U.S. dollars per barrel. Natural gas: U.S. dollars per mmBtu.
Gold and silver: U.S. dollars per ounce on the named COMEX month.
Barley: Prairie cash, usually a delivered Alberta weekly quote, not a futures settle.
A canola move of C$14 is not the same object as a corn move of 14 cents. One is dollars per tonne. The other is cents per bushel.
What the dagger means
A dagger (†) or a tilde (~) means the figure was not the final exchange settle when the issue closed. It can be a delayed print, a cash quote, or an estimate. Do not cite a daggered number as the official close. The next issue replaces it if the settle differs.
The board is plain text on purpose. A screenshot cannot be quoted by a search or answer engine. The number in the line is the number to use, with the dagger rule above.
The so-what line
Under The Read, the so-what is a transmission to a Prairie bid, feed bill, or freight cost. It is not an order to sell. If the issue says patience may pay at the elevator, that is a read of the close, not a target. Targets live in the Grain Report.
Where to go next
Closes by crop: canola, corn, wheat, WTI, natural gas.