Turkey has had quite a difficult crop year thus far with wheat barley and corn production appearing to be down by about 10 percent on average. It is expected that wheat imports will have to rise approximately 20 percent this year as wheat flour exports drop about 25 percent.
News Updates North African buyers of French wheat have been very concerned about reports that this season's crop is of very poor quality and the corroborating news that France imported 27,500 MT of high protein wheat from Lithuania this week. However, France has exported just over 1 MMT of wheat to non-EU destinations in the first eight weeks of the crop year, so there appears to be some wheat of export quality available. North Africa is France's largest exp...
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...
