THE OPEN
Jan beans: 2 1/4 lower Dec meal: .80 lower Dec soyoil: 1 lower Dec corn: 1 1/2 lower Dec wheat: 1/2 higher
The markets opened as expected with funds ready to sell on the opening rally. Major features of trade were that of buy soyoil/sell meal, and buy corn/sell wheat. Farmers continue to harvest in the last of the crops in the field, and are waiting for better levels at which to sell it. Today's trade turned very technical, as a short-covering open from the PM session resulted in weaker values, particularly for beans. Chatter around the industry is that the “phase one” U.S.-China trade deal will include beans and wheat, but perhaps not corn, which is leading to buy beans and wheat trade/sell corn over an exten...
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...