Two months certainly do not make a crop year, but for corn and soybeans this past September and October have provided plenty of interesting things to consider. These past two months also have raised plenty of questions still to be answered. With the record early U.S. corn and soybean harvests essentially wrapped up by the end of October, it is not a bad time to step back to see what sort of patterns the first two months of the 2012/13 crop year have brought us. We will note some of the trends and potential trends, common threads if you will, that strike us as being important. We will divide them up by individual crops, although obviously, some of them will transcend specific crop designations. Corn
The dominating factor for the corn c...
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...
