General Comments The U.S. government and the banking system were closed today for the Veteran's Day holiday. There were no USDA reports. The weekly export inspections, crop progress, and any export sales announcements routinely released on Monday will be released tomorrow.The soy complex was very soft again in the Sunday evening session following last Friday's bearishly construed USDA production and supply and demand numbers. Corn and wheat futures were stable much of the evening, but eventually collapsed today under the weight of sharply lower soybean futures. Today the agricultural commodities were collapsing on their own. Financial markets were generally stable, as was crude oil and the dollar index. The markets got in technical troub...
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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