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Market Commentary: Ephemeral Trump Bump

The U.S. – China tariff war truce technically expires tomorrow and in negotiating its extension, President Trump decided to signal his hope that Beij...

Summary of Futures

Dec 25 Corn closed at $4.0775/bushel, up $0.0225 from yesterday's close.  Sep 25 Wheat closed at $5.15/bushel, up $0.005 from yesterday's close. ...

NCGA Complains About Tariffs and Margins

The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), along with 25 state associations, sent a letter on 1 August to USTR Jamieson Greer, Commerce Secretary Howard...

Mercosur Regional Analysis

Wheat and Boosting Production Margins With 6.7 million hectares sown, the 2025/2026 season wheat crop has been planted and it marks one of Argentina’...

Market Commentary: Momentum is Stalled Pending WASDE

After yesterday’s baseless bounce, today’s trading involved some retracement on a lack of fresh inputs. There was yet another flash corn export...

Summary of Futures

Dec 25 Corn closed at $4.055/bushel, down $0.015 from yesterday's close.  Sep 25 Wheat closed at $5.145/bushel, down $0.0375 from yesterday's close.&n...

Dicamba Registration Re-Proposed

On 23 July, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that three formulations of the pesticide dicamba would be open to a 30-day comment period t...

Market Commentary: A Bounce but Fundamentals Unchanged

Unlike in previous days, commodity futures opened higher today and sustained upward momentum. There was some short covering and some correction from over-s...

Export Sales

Export Sales and Shipments for July 25-31, 2025 Wheat: Net sales of 737,800 metric tons (MT) for 2025/2026 were up 25 percent from the previous week and fr...

Livestock Round Up: Trade Update

The beef sector experienced a week of record-breaking prices, and depressed packer margins for the week ending 1 August. Live cattle were a record $244.41...

Summary of Futures

Dec 25 Corn closed at $4.07/bushel, up $0.0575 from yesterday's close.  Sep 25 Wheat closed at $5.1825/bushel, up $0.0975 from yesterday's close. ...

Market Commentary: Mixed Day Awaiting New Inputs

There were few fundamental inputs, but today’s agricultural futures markets established new contract lows for corn, SRW and HRS. There was a new cont...

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