Both the House and Senate budgets look to boost defense spending, while one of the other outcomes from the budget conference negotiations is related to whether agriculture will be part of the reconciliation instructions.The House and Senate Budget Committees are meeting in conference to finalize a FY 2016 Congressional Budget Resolution. The Senate's budget resolution calls for cuts in mandatory spending of $4.3 trillion over the course of 10 years, and the House's version stipulates cuts of $1 trillion in mandatory spending outside of health and retirement programs over the same period of time.Following is a summary of where conference negotiations currently stand:In the conference negotiations, both the House and Senate budgets look to bo...
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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