General Comments It has been an interesting few days for the CME. First, the ICE's foray into grain and soy markets with all electronic trading for 22 hours a day beginning 14 May forced CME to announce that they too were going to a 22-hour electronic trading day also beginning 14 May. Exchanges can initiate such changes themselves, but CFTC reserves the right to review the decision and change or cancel it if it chooses to do so. Exchanges are required to submit the paperwork for self-initiated changes 10 days before the effective date of the change.In the rush to counter the ICE's move, the CME has not put the paperwork together in time to meet the 10-day requirement, and thus it has been forced to delay the beginning of its 22-hour tra...
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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