Considering all the recent chatter about free trade, fair trade, NAFTA, steel and aluminum quotas, etc., a farmer from eastern Montana has pointed out that perhaps the U.S. should put tariffs on Canadian spring wheat. The U.S. has always imported a significant amount of that from Canada and also durum. The flow south is easy logistically, and the border is wide open. However, it is more difficult to ship wheat into Canada because of its many restrictive rules specific to varieties, grading standards, etc. In fact, U.S. imports of Canadian spring wheat are up from 42 million bushels (1.14 MMT) in MY 2016/17 to 74 million bushels (2 MMT) in MY 2017/18, an increase of 176 percent and the second-largest import number in 20 years. Canada has b...
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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