Mother Nature certainly can give good weather, but she can also take it away. She has done some of both recently. She ignored Mike Krueger's plea in this report on 31 May for "no more rain, please!" Instead, this past weekend she dumped rain by the buckets over much of the Midwest. The weekend rainfall over the Central Plains, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio delivered by the same frontal system that spawned the damaging tornadoes over Oklahoma and Missouri was measured in inches in many places, with the heaviest amounts falling in the western Corn Belt on top of the heavy rains that fell earlier last week. Flooding has occurred in many areas, and countless fields have standing water. This last rain deluge likely will make May 2...
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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