It was another mostly green day in agricultural futures, lending credence to the saying that the trend is your friend. Macro markets offered new variables but for ags it was more of the same old same old. The direction was mostly set out of the box with several opening bids outrunning the overnight closes. There were corrections later in the trading, but the overall pattern was set. This was especially true in the reversal of now sell meal and buy oil. It has become a bit of a mini-rally this week in corn, wheat, and soybeans. Since the market opened on Monday, December corn and November soybeans are each up over 9.5 percent, and September SRW is up 7.6 percent.
USDA’s weekly Export Sales report did little to contribute to t...
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...
