GOOD MORNING, Prices are higher this morning on a dry weekend across Brazil, with more of the same this week as we are now in a full-blown weather market. Prices started the PM session on the plus side with beans, corn, and meal printing new contract highs. Argentina's financial and grain markets are closed today but farmers are keeping their beans off the market anyways, which is price supportive. Talk of lower grains in SA and in the Black Sea is support. Some crop watchers are lowering their estimates of both Brazilian and Argentine crops. USDA already lowered estimates for Ukrainian corn and exports. OUTSIDE MARKETS Supportive as new money seems to have arrived in Ags as the bull markets con...
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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