After a week of stunning volatility, the CBOT ended Friday with quiet trade that saw summer row crops firm while the wheat selloff continued, though in muted fashion. The USDA’s July WASDE wasn’t exactly bearish, but funds are growing tired of holding commodities amid the lack of a bullish story and rising inflation. That left them as net sellers all week, which pushed the CBOT lower. Wheat futures remain particularly weak as the strong U.S. dollar works against export potential. Additionally, the advancing northern hemisphere harvest is reassuring regarding world supplies, taking away another possible bullish story. For corn and soybeans, there is a growing sense the current selloff was overdone, especially with a hot, dry weat...
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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