Later today USDA is expected to announce that corn planting was about 20 percent completed as of last Sunday, 15 April. If so, that would be a record-early pace. It would suggest that corn planting will be more than 50 percent complete on 1 May, which would also be a record. If this proves to be the case, analysts will become euphoric about the potential for a record-high national average corn yield of say, 165 BPA or even higher. After all, early planted corn crops tend to result in above-average yields.If a record-big corn yield were combined with a historically large planted area, the result would be a humongous 2012 U.S. corn production that would quickly swamp any old crop shortages. Moreover, early planting likely will result in an...
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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