Today's up-and-down price action in grain and soy futures markets is typical market fare leading up to key USDA reports, which in this case are the 30 June acreage and quarterly stocks reports. Current markets are dealing with a rather complex set of factors. General Comments Today's up-and-down price action in grain and soy futures markets is typical market fare leading up to key USDA reports, which in this case are the 30 June acreage and quarterly stocks reports. Current markets are dealing with a rather complex set of factors. Among those are persistent and excessive rainfall across the southern, central and eastern Corn Belt, uncertainties about planted acreage that are complicated by the wet weather, Canadian weather problems, the r...
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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