Tautological Rabbit Hole The COP28 meeting in Dubai came to an agreement on a loss and damage fund whereby rich countries help poor countries weather the adverse impacts of climate change. Funding will be voluntary and it will be run by the World Bank, presumably with the controls necessary to prevent the kleptocracy prevalent in poor nation governments. Then again, the U.S. Congress is unlikely to provide much funding lest their constituents think they care more about foreigners than domestic needs. We noted early this week that the FAO proposal in Dubai is for the rich countries to cut their meat consumption while poor countries boost theirs. Critics often blame agriculture for contributing a third of global emissions and 134 coun...
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...
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