Corn, the soybean complex and SRW all closed higher on the day with Kansas City and Minneapolis fractionally lower. For the trading week thus far, July corn is up 9.75 cents (2.1 percent), July soybeans are 10.25 cents higher (0.8 percent), and July SRW is down 7.5 cents (-1.1 percent).
No doubt consternating for the trade are the unknowns about planted acreage and upcoming weather patterns. Corn planting has had delays, but farmers love to plant the crop and it will be unknown until the USDA 28 June Acreage report how much was switched to soybeans. Estimates for corn area range widely from 87 to 93 million acres. On the tails of that distribution are very low and very high price impacts. Or will it be more than the 86.5 million ac...
An amendment to the U.S. House farm bill, aiming to remove the Save Our Bacon Act language in Section 12006 that would have stripped language to prohibit California’s Proposition 12, Massachusetts’ Question 3, and up to 500 state agricultural laws across the country, was blocked by...
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