General Comments The soy complex continues to trade bullish South American production estimates, and the trade continues to buy soybeans and sell everything else. That was the theme in the Sunday evening session, and it followed through to today's market as well. Soybean futures started stronger than expected, trading 20-22 higher at one point. That strength brought buyers to corn and wheat as well, but corn went from trading as much as 8-9 higher at mid-morning to trading lower over the noon hour. Not many are willing to own corn heading into Friday's acreage and stocks reports. By the end of the session, corn was in full-scale retreat as the selling accelerated. Corn continues to be the preferred short leg of nearly every spread imag...
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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