Wheat The outlook for wheat continues to get more complicated with rains failing to arrive and temperatures beginning to rise, thus increasing the crop's water requirements. Some light rains fell at the end of the weekend, but fields generally have very little water, with insignificant or insufficient moisture reserves in most of the wheat area.
The drought is sufficient to have some analysts already discussing a wheat crop of 17-17.5 MMT, which sounds optimistic to WPI, unless there is a radical change in precipitation patterns in the coming days. The crop in the core zone is the most affected, and the share of wheat fields rated in regular/bad condition rose from 54 percent last week to 70 percent this week. In some...
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...