Corn and wheat turned higher on Tuesday while the soy complex sold off despite strength in palm oil futures. Rumors that the EPA will soon announce its biofuels mandates, including a report from Reuters citing unnamed sources, helped support corn and ethanol demand expectations while painting a more bearish picture for soyoil and soybean. Overall, however, trade was lackluster with funds and traders mostly adjusting positions heading into the December WASDE. The most excitement of the day was in lean hog futures, which posted triple-digit losses on position liquidation and rapidly deteriorating technical conditions. Outside markets were sharply higher as investors adopted a “risk on” attitude with increasing confirmation...
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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