It was a contrast of a mostly higher day but with new contract lows for corn and all three wheats. Corn wilted from private forecasts of big yields, and expectations of good crop conditions in contrast with slowed export inspections. It was mostly steady on the first day of a new week with little fresh input to change course. Reports Crop Progress: USDA’s weekly Crop Progress report continued to show U.S. major crops progressing well. The corn condition remained the same with 86 percent good/excellent, but the soybean crop was taken down 1 percent with 68 percent rated good/excellent. The sorghum and barley crops are more behind than the larger crops.
Export Inspections: Weekly corn export inspections totaled 1.207...
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...
