Farming Propaganda It may not just be foreign elections that Russia is trying to influence but foreign economies as well. While investigating the 2016 U.S. presidential election and Russian efforts to influence it, evidence has reportedly been found that Russian money was funneled to groups protesting against fracking in America. U.S. production of petroleum has been growing so rapidly that it now surpasses supplies from Saudi Arabia. The increased availability of American oil has placed a cap on world market prices, and over half of the Russian government’s revenues are derived from the oil and gas sector. The government-owned news organization Russia Today has been heavily promoting news about protestors in Germany demanding a new...
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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