The fundamentals are unchanged but there is a cloud overhead due to the impending tariff war and the headwinds that portends. So, the market today and all week is a matter of treading water until more definitive cues emerge. In fact, today was so mixed that soybeans and soyoil fell even as typically beleaguered soymeal gained. Corn was down today but up on the week. Cattle have been red hot, but not today. That will change Monday because the Catte on Feed report after the close was red hot. Hogs have been suffering, but not today. The only consistency was strength in wheat. On the week:
It was the third week in a row higher for live cattle. It was the fourth consecutive week lower for soybeans. Live hogs have now declined for five we...
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...
