Told You So USDA’s ERS warned that the EU’s Green Deal Farm to Fork policy would lead to a decline in production but Brussels denied the negative impact and said it would have its own study. One was delivered to the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and it pretty much says the same thing: farm income will decline by 3 – 28 percent, and up to a 42 percent drop for farmers that stick to their conventional practices rather than adopting higher paying organic methods. Ignoring the fact that all farmers going organic will commoditize the market into lower returns, there are other report insights that will be noted by Europe’s competitors. In addition to farmers reducing the use of inputs, the report s...
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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