The CBOT was mixed with soybeans and products sharply lower after yesterday hammered the market with surprisingly good crop conditions ratings and a bearish Oilseed Crushing report. Corn futures were mostly along for the ride and lower while wheat traded a mixed day with the KCBT market rising another 4 cents. Technical action in wheat remains supportive and suggests that there is unfinished business left above today’s close. Yesterday’s Grain and Oilseeds Crushing report from USDA leaned bearish the soy complex today. Soybean crushings were below expectations and the slowest rate since June 2019. Higher prices and tight supplies slowed the crush, and a similar trend was reflected in soyoil stocks. Soyoil stocks were well...
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...
Decline of China Ag Import Market The media has focused on China’s self-sufficiency effort in agriculture and its implications. In a largely political statement, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Congress that the Trump Administration wants to broaden the agricultural imports...
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