Weather continues to drive the CBOT price action with more rains forecast for the western Corn Belt through the end of July and into August pressuring summer row crops. Corn and soybeans settled lower for the day, and both are testing technical support on the charts at a time when funds are typically net sellers and liquidate their longs. In contrast, wheat futures started the day sharply higher but fell back as the U.S. dollar regained its footing. There are signs that the selloff in wheat is subsiding and that traders may start to add back length and risk to their positions. The latest weather forecasts from the GFS model include widespread showers for all but the southern Plains in the coming five days. Notably, parts of the weste...
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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