The trading session opened kind of sluggish, not even meeting the overnight closes. There was uncertainty in grains and oilseeds, though not in livestock since it opened lower. Soybeans surged first, with corn following and wheat getting the hint about two hours into the day. The market remains down overall for the week, but today’s higher closes helped soften the past few days of losses, particularly for soybeans.
The dour tone that was set early in the week included crop conditions holding up better than expected, Ukraine finally exporting grain, and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi poking number one buyer China in the eye. It all seemed ominous. Funds have been exiting. But the weather still holds risk. There are still 17 s...
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...
