Corn It is expected that extreme temperatures recorded in Argentina over the past fifteen days may reduce the corn crop’s yield potential, primarily in late-maturing corn (to be evaluated in the coming weeks). Currently, 53 percent of that crop is going through its critical period for yield determination and over the past two weeks, the area with optimal/adequate soil moisture fell from 6.1 to 4.3 Mha. Towards the end of last week, rains of good intensity fell over much of the agricultural area, providing relief to crops that had been under significant stress. Now their recovery begins, and there is time until harvest, but there are still fields that may not fully recover their potential.
Corn origination is maintaini...
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...
In agriculture and food processing, we think a lot about infrastructure: transportation and storage, processing and packaging, distribution and delivery. It is a physical system of roads, railroads, and rivers; concrete and steel storage; processing plants, warehouses, and machinery; and, event...
