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Grains see follow through buying and short covering but are the bottoms in? More profit taking in the cattle so is this topping action? Darin Newsom, Sr. Market Analyst with Barchart has the answers.
AgDay TV Markets Now: Grains finally see a short covering bounce Wednesday but after the selloff in grains what should farmers be doing for marketing? Tomm Pfitzenmaier of Summit Commodity Brokerage has advice.
Corn-for-ethanol use totaled 443.6 million bu. in January, according to USDA.
Traders said that the recent sell-off may have sparked some buying interest from importers that had viewed U.S. corn as too expensive when compared to supplies from other countries.
The firm says yields in other areas of Brazil are expected to more than compensate for any losses caused by drought in Rio Grande do Sul.
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Morocco is sitting on 75-85% of proven global phosphate reserves, but projections of phosphate depletion span from 50 to 300 years. John Phipps explains why the concerns about peak phosphate production may be overblown.
Mexico is accusing the U.S. of playing politics over the GMO corn issue, but NCGA CEO Neil Caskey says if Mexico wants non-GMO, they’ll need to pay a premium for it instead of violating a trade pact already in place.
“This proposal, while well-intended, still leaves the country with a patchwork of regulations that prevents the nation’s driving public from enjoying the full benefits of biofuels,” said Sen. Deb Fischer.
“In this current situation, the traditional approach to free trade agreements — which isn’t just tariff cuts, but that they do tariff cuts on a fully comprehensive basis — isn’t what we need right now,” Tai says.