Rapeseed-Mustard Prices Crash as Hopes of Exporting to China Vanish As relations between the U.S. and China thawed and a 90-day truce was called, all hopes of India exporting rapeseed-mustard meal and soymeal to the latter vanished. China was back in the market for U.S. soybeans. It did make strides toward facilitating Indian oil meal exports by reducing the duty and registering the processing plants, but the export plans will have to be shelved for now with the possibility of being implemented at a later time. In anticipation of good prices due to exports, the area under rapeseed-mustard was increased, reaching 6.579 million hac as of 28 Decenber 2018 against 6.382 mill hac a year ago and the normal 6.125 million hac. Meanwhile, the area...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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