Trading for the holiday-shortened week started with grains in the green during the overnight session as the wet U.S. weather pattern remained in place over the weekend. Corn farmers are quickly running into the final planting dates for crop insurance eligibility, and the odds of 5 million or more prevented planting acres are increasing with each passing day. The markets are aware of this and quickly added a weather premium last night. The day session featured corn, soybeans and wheat all moving higher at the open and adding to gains from there. Funds are entering new long positions in corn and aggressively exiting soybean shorts. The wheat markets continue to benefit from some spread trades as well as their own bullish developments. USDA&...
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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