Like meat prices last year, gasoline prices this year have taken on a political dimension. In both cases the White House employed the bully pulpit to pressure industries to lower retail prices. So, it is no surprise that the Administration took a bit of a victory lap on gas prices dropping since their June peak of more than $5 per gallon to current levels of $4.45 per gallon. As White House economist Jared Bernstein said last week, “It's one of the fastest declines in retail gas prices in a decade” using a talking point out of the White House communications office memo circulated to the press which stated: Even as Putin’s war continues to pressure global energy supply, American families are currently living through one of...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
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