After yesterday’s news that Russia moved as many as 10,000 troops away from the Ukrainian border in Belarus, NATO commanders refuted it, saying they see no evidence of Russia backing down. That helped put a bid under the CBOT, though enthusiasm for adding a “war risk” premium back to wheat futures was decidedly lacking. It seems the market feels these rumors are overplayed without material escalations in the standoff. Another factor pressuring the wheat market is the fact that Ukrainian and other Black Sea traders note grain shipments from the region have so far been unhampered by Russian navy exercise. Until wheat and grain shipments from the Black Sea see material, adverse impacts, the futures market(s) is likely to igno...
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...
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