THE OPEN Jan beans: 2 1/2 higher Dec meal: 1.50 higher Dec soyoil: 3 lower Dec corn: 1 3/4 lower Dec wheat: 3/4 lower Prices opened as called with more upside traction around the board. Dec corn found technical buying activity while corn and bean spreads firmed. The stopping of all the bean receipts by Cargill set the tone for bull-spreading activity, which helped to firm values across the board. More positive trade talk comments from Kudlow found the bean market well supported, with the Dow putting in the best performance to date, trading over 200 points higher. On Bloomberg news, Kudlow stated that the phase one China trade deal is not fully completed, but that the agricul...
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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