GOOD MORNING, The markets are lower this morning on profit-taking from current market tops as better rains fall across areas of Brazil. This is a corrective move from the top as the mission of the market is now to define new and higher value trading ranges, except for wheat which is still closer to the bottom of its trading range activity. Current rallies have been sharp, and charts extremely overbought. Cushioning a larger break is continued chatter that China buyers booked as many as a dozen cargoes of corn and beans each this week, which was a part of the recent price rise. Soyoil remains a fan favorite over meal, as crush margins move lower and vegoil global prices move higher. Beans started to sell-off more aro...
Weather concerns and the impacts of the war in Iran helped push wheat and corn to sharp gains Tuesday, with both markets blowing past key technical resistance levels. The weather is now coupled with geopolitical tensions that look increasingly hard to resolve, which is giving funds the perfect...
Congress is moving forward with its FY 2027 spending bills, while also still working to address FY 2026 funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which is still in a shutdown. The House Agriculture-FDA Appropriations Subcommittee marked up and passed its FY 2027 bill. The House bill prov...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Tunisian researchers have been able to fully sequence the genomes of two local durum wheat types that have been grown in Tunisia for generations. They say that this “could be the key to developing more climate-resistant duru...
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