Flooding once again threatens Argentine agriculture as it has slowed the harvesting and planting of two different crops, but another could also be affected if the rain continues. Flooding Once Again Threatens Argentine Agriculture Argentina suffers a drought in some years and flooding in others. This year it appears the problem is once again the latter. In the past few weeks, widespread flooding has occurred in the provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Cordoba and Santa Fe with states of emergency declared in parts of the first two. The floods have slowed completion of the 2017 corn harvest as well as the planting of the sunflower crop. Farmers normally begin to plant corn in September, but that may now be pushed back along with pote...
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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