Double-Edged Assistance The trade mitigation package being floated by the Trump administration is again generous to soybeans but stingy toward corn. In the earlier package, corn received less than 1 percent of the payment given to soybeans. The numbers being thrown around for round two quadruples the amount to corn but still leaves it at just 2 percent of the soybean assistance. However, a positive spin from exporters of corn is that at least that commodity is unlikely to face countervailing duties in foreign markets since the assistance is less than 5 percent of the value of the corn. Walk and Chew Gum Frustrated by the unrelenting efforts of congressional Democrats to investigate him, President Trump announced that he will not...
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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