The CBOT was mostly lower on Tuesday as fund liquidation and short-selling continued amid pressure from the massive Brazilian soybean crop and promises for an equally formidable safrinha corn crop. Brazil seems to be dominating the market discussion right now, especially in the soy complex, and market conditions switched from bullish to bearish very quickly. Corn is also finding pressure from Brazil after China cancelled some export sales yesterday, sales that will likely be switched to Brazil. The corn market did manage to squeeze out small gains for the day, however, on buyers at technical support levels. There is little fresh news right now outside of Brazil and how the U.S. weather will impact the HRW wheat crop and spring planting effo...
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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