In the last full trading day before the August WASDE is released, traders reaffirmed their belief that USDA will be marking yields lower on adverse weather impacts. The expected declines are modest: corn down 1.2 percent to 173.6 bushels/acre, soybeans lower by 0.9 percent to 51 bushels/acre, and spring wheat slightly higher but with drought induced reductions in the Northern Plains and PNW. There are of course guesses that the reductions will be larger, which would yield a bullish session tomorrow. The trade has spent the past several sessions overall working the market higher, and today continued that direction except for feeder cattle.
Today’s USDA Export Sales report showed solid wheat numbers, impressive meal sales, and...
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...
