As expected, it was a lower volume trading day ahead of likely market moving USDA reports on Monday. The exceptions were HRS and lean hogs. There were also generally lower trading ranges. The soybean complex traded higher on strength in coproducts but the rest of the board was mostly in the red with HRW trading unchanged after Euronext wheat gained €0.25/MT. For the week, major agricultural commodities were largely in the green; the exceptions being cattle and HRS.
It was the first time higher in six weeks for soymeal and SRW. It was the first week lower after five higher weekly closes for cattle. Soybeans had the first week higher after a month of lower closes. After three weeks of lower closes, HRW made gains on weather...
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...
