Not totally that bad if you were betting short, or like livestock. But let’s count the ways:
New contract low in corn New contract low in soybean meal New contract low in HRW New contract low in HRS New contract low in Paris wheat
What caused all of these exits? First and foremost was USDA’s forecast at its annual Outlook Conference. Basically, historically large carryover stocks for corn, wheat, and soybeans. The expected planted acres were not too surprising:
Corn: 91 million acres, down 3.8 percent Soybeans: 87.5 million acres, up 4.7 percent Wheat: 47 million acres, down 5.2 percent
There is some caution in that the corn-soybean ratio is small enough that farmers wanting to stay in their normal rotation m...
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...