Soybean Plantings in Argentina Delayed by Flooding Last year Argentina suffered a severe drought that sharply cut its soybean production. This year the problem is early season flooding that is delaying the planting of corn and soybeans. A report yesterday indicated that as many as 14 million hectares of farmland in Buenos Aires and Santa Cruz provinces were so flooded they cannot be planted, according to Luis Etchevere, head of the Argentine Rural Society. Etchevere said that this included 11 million hectares in Buenos Aires province and 3 million hectares in Santa Cruz province.The flooded land is most likely to reduce the area planted to corn and increase the area planted to soybeans. Also, the delay in plantings of soybeans may reduce...
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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