Today's long-awaited quarterly stocks and acreage revisions did contain a few surprises, but the surprises were not significant enough to outweigh the raging weather market. The tables below show you today's numbers with comparisons to previous reports and market expectations. Corn USDA did not come in with a sub-3 billion-bushel 1 June stocks number that was necessary to make the corn outlook bullish based on old crop supplies. The debate over feed/residual usage continues with a number of analysts still wondering what animals on the U.S. have been eating. The actual 3.148 billion-bushel number was close to the range of estimates and considered neutral. The corn planted acreage estimate was perhaps just slightly larger than expected.Th...
Key Takeaways: President Trump announced $8 billion in additional agricultural assistance through the Harvest Fuel Relief Program, as USDA projects farm fuel and oil expenses will increase 28.8 percent in 2026. The package follows $12 billion in earlier relief, while government farm payments w...
Key Takeaways: A student group from the University of Chicago is protesting to bring back onion futures trading. Trading in onion futures was banned in 1958 following a spectacular bout of market manipulation that resulted in a corner of the physical market. The ban on onion futures led t...
Beef packer margins deteriorated to $141/head last week, down $55 from the prior week as fed cattle prices strengthened while the Choice cutout remained nearly unchanged. The cutout held near $373/cwt while fed cattle prices climbed $4/cwt to $224/cwt, narrowing processor profits. Despite the d...
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Weighing in on strategic realignment
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