It is no surprise why the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is about to come to fruition and TTIP looks like mostly many years of meetings and a modest outcome, if any. TPP versus TTIP Shawn Donnan in the Financial Times today makes a valid observation that while President Obama bucks his own political party in an effort to get trade agreements and Japan's Shinzō Abe says he will not shy away from the domestic reforms his country must make to obtain a quality trade agreement, the EU leadership has capitulated to the "social media mythmaking" of activists. He cites EU President Jean-Claude Juncker's recent proposal to allow member state level decisions on the use of GMOs as the most recent case in point.Europe has explicitly taken issues off...
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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