Soybean Crop Condition Down Slightly, Still Good Yesterday's USDA crop progress and condition report indicated there was a 1 percent drop in the combined good and excellent categories for the current soybean crop. At the same time there was a 1 percent increase to 7 percent in the poor category. The report indicated 63 percent of the U.S. soybean crop is rated as good or excellent and only 9 percent is rated as poor or very poor. This compares with a year ago when only 29 percent of the crop was rated as good or excellent and 37 percent was rated as poor or very poor.The states with the poorest rated crop conditions are Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri. The states with the highest combined excellent and poor ratings are Kentucky (86 perce...
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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