WTO Foil Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) added arguments to his call for a U.S. withdrawal from the WTO but they are not necessarily good ones. Hawley will use procedural requirements to get a Senate vote on WTO withdrawal and he will lose badly. The House has far more trade skeptics than the Senate and past efforts at withdrawal in that body managed to get just 12 to 19 percent support. Look for half that number at best in a Senate vote. His arguments reinforce President Trump’s complaints about the global trade body, but they are purely rhetorical. His latest is that the WTO limits the amount of subsidies that can be given to farmers. This is true but to a far less degree than the limits it places on most other countries. Moreove...
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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