News Updates There was not too much grain trade activity in North Africa and the Middle East in the past week due to the Eid holidays following Ramadan.The International Grains Council (IGC) last week issued its latest forecast on world grains. Overall, since the last report in July, the changes in trade for the Middle East, North Africa and Africa were very minor, with only slight adjustments to imports for Iran and Morocco while other countries were unchanged. All the major changes in the report tended to be more on the production side of things as a result of the extended drought in the U.S. as well as the increasingly difficult crop year seen in Russia, Ukraine and Romania -- all of which will affect grain supply to this region.Total w...
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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