Trading volumes today were down 40-50 percent in some commodities, but the bottom line was some exiting and losses from the week before an extended holiday period. The story line no doubt is improved weather in Brazil and the U.S. Midwest, transportation hurdles, and stiff competition from both Russia and South America. For the week, March corn lost 10 cents, January soybeans were down 25.25 cents, March HRW lost 17.75 cents, March SRW was off 13 cents, and March HRS gave up 16.5 cents.
Prices for corn and the soybean complex strengthened later in the session after the Union Pacific Railroad announced that it would reopen the critical El Paso and Eagle Pass interchanges with Mexico. The critical economic and grain linkage had an un...
Weather concerns and the impacts of the war in Iran helped push wheat and corn to sharp gains Tuesday, with both markets blowing past key technical resistance levels. The weather is now coupled with geopolitical tensions that look increasingly hard to resolve, which is giving funds the perfect...
Congress is moving forward with its FY 2027 spending bills, while also still working to address FY 2026 funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which is still in a shutdown. The House Agriculture-FDA Appropriations Subcommittee marked up and passed its FY 2027 bill. The House bill prov...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Tunisian researchers have been able to fully sequence the genomes of two local durum wheat types that have been grown in Tunisia for generations. They say that this “could be the key to developing more climate-resistant duru...