The CBOT turned higher to start the week with short covering on deeply oversold technical conditions and a dry 10-day weather forecast for the central and eastern Corn Belt offering support. Soybeans led the move higher overnight and posted strong gains during the day session with corn following on the heels of a strong export inspections report. Wheat was the laggard for the day but managed to post its first daily gain in three days with most of the buying interest coming from short-covering trades. For the spring crops, the day’s price action was a welcome relief from last week’s steep selloff, but it does little to alter the long-term bearish outlook for the grain and oilseed markets. WPI looks for firmer trade this week, but...
What You Need to Know Today: U.S. naval escorts through the Strait of Hormuz and renewed Iranian attacks on vessels and UAE infrastructure are sustaining geopolitical risk across energy and commodity markets Broad profit taking and weaker crude oil triggered a pullback across grains, signaling...
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held a hearing on legislative proposals concerning food regulation and oversight. The hearing was focused on a wide range of bills, in keeping with the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda, ranging from anti–plant-based dairy produc...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Egypt and Algeria, in addition to Israel, are being monitored by Ukraine as possible destinations for grain taken by Russia from occupied Ukrainian regions. In April, Egypt had said that it would “stop accepting such shipmen...
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