Tough Sino-West Balance Any hope of comity with China went out the window last week in Anchorage and into the sewer this week over sanctions related to treatment of the Uyghurs. China is making it clear that it will not be somehow characterized as morally inferior to the west. It has pulled many hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and, at least internally, the Chinese people are grateful to their government (excluding the Uyghurs, Hongkongers, Taiwanese). China is not helping its case, however, with the west. It wants to boost its ties with Russia and North Korea, has stepped up oil purchases from outliers Venezuela and Iran, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is in Beijing this week seeking a collective decoupling...
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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