Wheat Wheat prices in the local market continue to rise. The fear of drought and a tight supply/demand balance are causing daily increases. Since the beginning of September, prices have risen about $70/MT in the futures market. Rains that fell last week, although always helpful, were insufficient and in some cases too late. The market expects a maximum of 16.5 MMT to be produced this year if everything goes well from now forward, but forecasts are not optimistic, and that number may fall. There are talks that some 500,000 ha are at high risk of total loss in the Nucleus region. Exporters have export declarations for about 8.8 MMT and purchases in the local market of 5.5 MMT. Since then, farmers have stopped selling and prices started to r...
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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