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A risk off day produces a lower market opening except for cattle. What is driving it? Michelle Rook has details with Chuck Shelby of Risk Management Commodities.
For the first time since the war started, a Ukrainian ship carrying grain left port. The UN says the Razoni was carrying 26,527 MT of corn. The vessel was stuck in port since Feb. 18, before the start of the war.
U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Thursday that grain shipments from Ukraine could resume as soon as today but that details of the exact coordinates of shipping routes were still being finalized.
Heavy Russian strikes hit the southern Ukrainian port city of Mykolaiv overnight and early on Sunday, killing the owner of one of the country’s largest grain producing and exporting companies, the local governor said.
Man-made disasters are the worst. And what just happened in Sri Lanka is an eye-opener and offers warnings about food production for the rest of the world—and perhaps most especially for my country of India.
“I feel like every day is one day closer to having the President declare a climate emergency,” says Newlin. “Once that happens, I don’t know what it will mean for ag, or what it’s going to open up the door to.”
The Commerce Department put out its second quarter GDP data this week, showing the U.S. economy shrank from April through June.
From 2001 to 2016, the U.S. lost or compromised 2,000 acres of farmland and ranchland every day. If that trend continues, and another 18.4 million acres is converted between 2016 and 2040.
November futures soared $1.52 3/4 for the week, or 11.7%, the largest weekly percentage gain since August 1999.
The weather wasn’t the only catalyst that sparked a soybean rally this week. Naomi Blohm and Matt Bennett discuss why the markets were extremely sensitive to the hot and dry August forecasts and potential market risks.