WASDE Meets Expectations Today’s release of the April USDA WASDE was not as interesting as last week’s Prospective Plantings report but that is mostly because it met expectations. They raised soybean utilization and reduced carryover. The market reacted by adding 43.5 cents to the May contract, which means this week’s gains almost erase last week’s losses. More importantly, it puts the market back on track for breaking resistance at $17/bushel. Where analysts had hoped for more but knew it would not be coming is some recognition of the war’s impact. USDA raised Russia’s wheat exports by 1 MMT, and lowered Ukraine’s by 1 MMT.
Export Sales Drop This week’s drop in USDA reported export...
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...
