USDA will release the December WASDE next Tuesday, 11 December. This will be the last WASDE scheduled to be released at the traditional 8:30 a.m. ET. Starting in January, NASS and the World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB) will commence releasing all important statistical reports related to crops at 12:00 p.m. (noon) ET. These include NASS's reports on planting intentions, crop production and grain stocks plus the monthly WASDE prepared by the WAOB. The release time for livestock reports will remain at 3:00 p.m. ET.When the CME Group extended Globex electronic trading of its grain and soy complex futures contracts to 21 hours each trading day, it meant that the futures market would be actively trading when USDA reports with the potential...
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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