THE OPEN:
Nov beans: 1 lower Dec meal: .50 higher Dec soyoil: 1 lower Dec corn: 1/4 lower Dec wheat: 1 1/2 lower
The markets put in a poor close to finish yesterday’s PM session, but opened firmer than expected as funds took early weakness as a further short-covering opportunity. Before the open, USDA reported 252,000 mt of beans sold to China for 2019/20 and 130,000 mt of white wheat for delivery to China, sparking a bit of recovery trade from early weakness. Shorts that were put on yesterday covered in positions today. Higher canola values also supported beans and soyoil prices, with sharply higher oilshare a key feature of trade on the board. SOY The soy complex opened weaker but found new short-cove...
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...
