Wheat Argentina’s wheat crop is suffering from a cold, dry winter. Many areas have not received meaningful rains since June and the crop is suffering. Presently, more than 60 percent of the planted area has soil moisture levels rated as fair/dry and 36 percent of the wheat crop is rated fair/bad (an increase of 10 percent from the prior week). The Cordoba province, which provides about 20 percent of Argentina’s total crop, is the most affected and many hectares are lost already. Santa Fe is in a similar situation. The Buenos Aires province, however, which accounts for 40 percent of the wheat crop, is developing with good conditions and sufficient soil moisture. Exacerbating the drought is the fact that many areas...
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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