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08 September 2014 – Policy

Budget Savings from Crop Insurance Premium Subsidies

By Dave Juday for Ag Perspectives

According to the GAO, reducing premium subsidies for revenue policies could potentially result in hundreds of millions of dollars in annual budgetary savings with limited costs to individual farmers.The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report yesterday on crop insurance entitled "Considerations in Reducing Federal Premium Subsidies." Indeed, the recent commodity price boom had a number of impacts on farm policy. The first was a wholesale abandonment of direct payments in lieu of a greater reliance on crop insurance, which the 2014 Farm Bill expanded in a number of areas. Peanuts were added as eligible under revenue coverage as were "enterprise units" (i.e., all insurable acreage of the same insured crop in the county in whi...

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09 March 2026 – Analysis

CFTC COT Report Analysis

By Matt Herrington for Ag Perspectives

Friday’s CFTC report showed funds further expanding long positions across the major ag futures contracts for the seventh straight week. Funds added 125,000 contracts (27 percent) to their all-ags net long position, with buying in soybeans and corn primarily responsible for the move. ...

TAGS – Feed Grains, Soy & Oilseeds, Wheat, Livestock, Energy, Softs, North America
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02 March 2026 – Analysis

CFTC COT Report Analysis

By Matt Herrington for Ag Perspectives

Friday’s CFTC report showed funds further expanding long positions across the major ag futures contracts for the sixth straight week. Funds added 176,000 contracts (60 percent) to their all-ags net long position, with strong and mostly uniform buying across the ag sector.  The soy co...

TAGS – Feed Grains, Soy & Oilseeds, Wheat, Livestock, Energy, Softs, North America
feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat
22 February 2026 – Analysis

CFTC COT Report Analysis

By Matt Herrington for Ag Perspectives

Friday’s CFTC report showed funds expanding long positions across the major ag futures contracts for the fifth straight week. Funds added 95,000 contracts to their all-ags net long position, with buying in the soy complex driving about two-thirds of the increase.  The soy complex saw...

TAGS – Feed Grains, Soy & Oilseeds, Wheat, Livestock, Energy, Softs, North America
feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat
09 March 2026 – Analysis

CFTC COT Report Analysis

By Matt Herrington for Ag Perspectives

Friday’s CFTC report showed funds further expanding long positions across the major ag futures contracts for the seventh straight week. Funds added 125,000 contracts (27 percent) to their all-ags net long position, with buying in soybeans and corn primarily responsible for the move. ...

TAGS – Feed Grains, Soy & Oilseeds, Wheat, Livestock, Energy, Softs, North America
feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat
02 March 2026 – Analysis

CFTC COT Report Analysis

By Matt Herrington for Ag Perspectives

Friday’s CFTC report showed funds further expanding long positions across the major ag futures contracts for the sixth straight week. Funds added 176,000 contracts (60 percent) to their all-ags net long position, with strong and mostly uniform buying across the ag sector.  The soy co...

TAGS – Feed Grains, Soy & Oilseeds, Wheat, Livestock, Energy, Softs, North America
feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat
22 February 2026 – Analysis

CFTC COT Report Analysis

By Matt Herrington for Ag Perspectives

Friday’s CFTC report showed funds expanding long positions across the major ag futures contracts for the fifth straight week. Funds added 95,000 contracts to their all-ags net long position, with buying in the soy complex driving about two-thirds of the increase.  The soy complex saw...

TAGS – Feed Grains, Soy & Oilseeds, Wheat, Livestock, Energy, Softs, North America
feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat
17 February 2026 – Analysis

CFTC COT Report Analysis

By Matt Herrington for Ag Perspectives

The attached PDF offers graphical depiction and seasonal analysis of managed money and commercial traders' net position in key agricultural commodity markets. The data is, of course, taken from the CFTC's weekly Commitment of Traders report, using the futures only data. WPI recently completed a...

TAGS – Feed Grains, Soy & Oilseeds, Wheat, Livestock, Energy, Softs, North America
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