USDA's estimates for U.S. and world grain and soybean production and stocks continued to reverberate throughout the markets. The shift to record crops and rapidly building stocks portrayed in yesterday's WASDE was not a surprise. General Comments USDA's estimates for U.S. and world grain and soybean production and stocks continued to reverberate throughout the markets. The shift to record crops and rapidly building stocks portrayed in yesterday's WASDE was not a surprise. Anyone with enough of an interest in grain and oilseeds to follow markets occasionally and pay attention to reports on crop development knew that it was coming. The market's institutional curiosity was reduced to questions of degree rather than direction. USDA provided i...
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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