USDA's highly anticipated reports on 1 March U.S. quarterly grain and soybean stocks and the 1 March initial planting intentions will be released Friday morning (30 March). The 1 March stocks numbers will set the tone for the April WASDE due out on 10 April, and the initial planting intentions will be the basis for USDA's estimates of crop production that will be used in its first real U.S. supply/demand forecasts for 2012/13 in the May WASDE.Anticipation of what USDA will say about stocks and plantings has been running high for weeks. Varying opinions about the report have contributed to recent market volatility. If past history holds, what USDA has to say about acreage and stocks on 30 March will sustain that volatility in the weeks fol...
What You Need to Know Today: Declining crop conditions ratings and shaky results from the Pro Farmer crop tour sent grains sharply higher on Tuesday. The Pro Farmer tour in Ohio pegged the state yield at 180.18 BPA, about 5.5 BPA below the tour’s 2025 estimate. Similarly, the Pro Farmer...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Egypt is the largest importer of Brazilian maize in the first six months of 2026. Egypt imported about 28.4 percent of maize exports, or about 1.7 million MT. Iran was the third-largest importer at 14.5 percent, or 900,000 MT, fol...
Based on a Depression-era statute, President Trump imposed 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion of exports to the U.S., or about 5.2 percent of the $383 billion worth of goods the U.S. imported from Canada in 2025, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Of that total, about $39.3 billion was agricu...
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