This has been a terrible harvest season for the U.S. hard red winter wheat crop with no end to the rain after three-four years of drought. The crop was mature and waiting for the combines to get rolling, which has finally happened in one state this week.This has been a terrible harvest season for the U.S. hard red winter wheat crop with no end to the rain after three-four years of drought. May was the wettest month in history for many parts of the southern Plains. Some locations reported more than 20 inches of rainfall last month with almost as much in the first half of June. The timing of these drought-breaking rains couldn't have been worse. The hard red winter wheat crop was mature and waiting for the combines to get rolling, which has f...
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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