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...
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Weather concerns and the impacts of the war in Iran helped push wheat and corn to sharp gains Tuesday, with both markets blowing past key technical resistance levels. The weather is now coupled with geopolitical tensions that look increasingly hard to resolve, which is giving funds the perfect...
Congress is moving forward with its FY 2027 spending bills, while also still working to address FY 2026 funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which is still in a shutdown. The House Agriculture-FDA Appropriations Subcommittee marked up and passed its FY 2027 bill. The House bill prov...
