Over the weekend, Russia intensified its offensive in eastern Ukraine and bombed a Cargill-owned export facility in southern Ukraine. The export facility formerly shipped some 1 MMT of sunflower oil annually. The heightened attacks and export facility bombing cast serious doubt about Russia’s intensions to permit Ukraine to export grain, again tightening perceptions of world wheat/corn availability for the coming year. Last week, Australia’s ABARES forecast the country’s wheat planted area at 14.45 Mha, up from 14.0 Mha planted last year. Production estimates for the crop are down from 2021/22, however, due to the exceptional yields achieved that year. The Aussie wheat crop is pegged at 30.3 MMT for 2022/23, down fr...
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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