As grain and soy futures markets tiptoe into November, the bag of potential price moving factors they face seems unusually full. There are the common (for this time of the year) questions about average yields and production volumes for U.S. corn and soybeans. Actually, there are perhaps more than the usual number of questions about production for early November due to the late harvest and the fickle growing season weather that has produced widely variable yields where harvesting has occurred. Then there are the recurring questions about U.S. and South American weather. There is also the status of trade negotiations between U.S. and Chinese trade officials trying to hammer out details of the now famous Phase One of an overall settlement of...
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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