Soybeans were weak early in the session, but light fund buying brought prices back to unchanged before noon. It was a big week for soybeans as they traded back to the highest levels in over five weeks on weather and planting concerns. General Comments Markets were quietly lower overnight with corn and soybeans the weakest. Wheat finished the night session nearly unchanged. There wasn't a great deal of news to push markets one way or the other today. Lack of news typically means market weakness, and that was the case as the day session got underway. Financial markets remain anxious about how the financial crisis in Greece will be resolved. We are into year five of worrying about it. There will be another emergency summit meeting in Europe...
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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