It was a pause and reflect day for some contracts, and more getting beat down for the cattle market. The latter invoking more limit-down safeguards. There were slight gains for soymeal, HRW and hogs, with the rest of the complex showing red. There was good volume for a Friday in corn, soybeans, some wheats, and particularly in cattle. No doubt there was some profit-taking involved. The overall week was generally greener than the ‘get out of Dodge’ mindset on Friday with the following notables:
It was the fourth week lower for lean hogs, led by lower cutout values. It was the second week lower for cattle, but with cutout values counterintuitively gaining. It was the second week higher for corn, SRW, HRW, soybeans and soyme...
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...
