GOOD MORNING, Prices are lower on first notice day for August futures. Wetter weather and end-of-week profit-taking dominates price action. Oilshare sees profit-taking, while other spread trade strengthens. Grains: Corn prices rally but lack conviction, with ideas that funds may sell rallies on the possibility of record yields from the eastern Corn Belt. Wheat prices are lower but trades in the upper portion of its range. Lower crops from Russia and Canada will underpin the market on breaks of size. Higher prices are now seen in the Black Sea on production worries. The final tour yield for all spring wheat was calculated at 28.9 bpa with hard red spring wheat at 29.1 bpa from ove...
What You Need to Know Today: Record biofuel demand continues to support soyoil values, as EIA data show that May soyoil usage as a biofuel feedstock reached a record 1.434 billion pounds. The latest data reinforces the strength of renewable fuel demand and helps explain ongoing investment in a...
A bipartisan group of 26 lawmakers, led by Representative David Valadao (R-CA), sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and House Agriculture Committee Chair GT Thompson (R-Pennsylvania) requesting that $5 billion of the temporary economic assistance for farmers go toward spec...
Key Takeaways: Soyoil consumption as a biofuel feedstock climbed to a record 1.434 billion pounds in May, setting a new all-time monthly high. Improved 45Z policy clarity in February 2026 has supported stronger soyoil demand from the biofuel sector by providing producers with greater certainty...
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