As markets and market participants make ready for the important bevy of USDA reports on Friday (11 January), we thought we should make way for them by clearing away a few things and thoughts that caught our attention during the last few weeks that may (or may not) hold some significance for the future. So with your indulgence, here is another odds-and-ends recap of them.
Friday's USDA reports will be the first to be released at 12:00 p.m. ET instead of 8:30 a.m. ET, as was the long established practice. The 8:30 a.m. time was picked originally because it gave interested parties two hours to analyze potentially market-sensitive reports before futures markets opened at 10:30 a.m. ET. Over the decades of our experience, there were countl...
Yesterday, Alberta held a referendum on whether to begin the process toward independence from Canada. With more than one million votes counted as of early Tuesday morning, around 77 percent supported remaining in Canada, and 23 percent voted to start the process of separation, according to unof...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Pakistan’s smaller wheat farmers have been holding protests to complain about the lack of a support price for wheat and the potential expansion of GMO crop production. They also want the reinstatement of PASSCO, the governme...
What You Need to Know Today: Harvest pressure in the U.S. sent corn and soybeans lower as supplies increased and there were signs USDA’s upward revisions to yields in the October WASDE could be close to right. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalated over the weekend, with Ukrai...
