BSE Update The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is asking USDA for information about the timeline of the discovery and announcement of the latest case of BSE. On 24 April USDA sent an e-mail at 1:45 p.m. announcing a news conference for 2:15 p.m. on a yet-to-be-announced topic. The announcement made at the conference was to be embargoed until 3:00 p.m.; the news was on the wires well before 3:00 p.m. Moreover, at about mid-day rumors had circulated in the market prior to the announcement, forcing cattle down the limit. By 12:45 p.m., USDA was receiving inquiries about the discovery of BSE, forcing it to move up its announcement from the originally scheduled release date. CFTC wants to get a better handle on how the news leak...
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...
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...
Key Takeaways: Brazil’s growing role in global agriculture is accompanied by a major vulnerability: the country imports approximately 88 percent of its fertilizer needs. High natural gas costs and development challenges have limited domestic nitrogen and potash production despite Brazil&...
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