This Friday’s USDA reports are an important influence on grain and soy price action for the next three months, but there are other factors looming that can also have an impact.Something is always influencing grain and soy prices. Even when that something turns into nothing of significance, prices can still react by doing nothing. We say this because this week will begin 2017’s springtime array of price points for grain and soy markets. USDA will release the results of its initial survey of U.S. farmers’ planting intentions for spring-sown field crops on 31 March as well as its latest quarterly estimates of U.S. grain and soybean stocks as of 1 March. This combination makes Friday’s USDA reports an important influence on grain and soy price...
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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