AgDay
Hosted by Haley Bickelhaupt, AgDay provides the nation’s farmers and ranchers with the latest news, weather and business headlines, and features the people and places unique to the industry and small-town America.
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Corn and soybeans lower on fund selling and improved weather. Cattle hit new contract highs with sharply higher cash trade. Joe Vaclacik of Standard Grain has analysis and a WASDE Report preview.
Drought continues to tighten its grip across the Plains, forcing farmers in West Texas to make some very difficult decisions this growing season. It’s also causing concerns about crumbling cotton infrastructure.
Corn and soybeans lower on improved weather, Argentina soy peso program, fund profit taking heading into a 3-day weekend and WASDE Report. Cattle gap higher on strong cash. Steve Freed, ADM Investor Services.
AgDay TV Markets Now: Naomi Blohm with Total Farm Marketing Says Improved Weather and Profit Taking Weighed on Grains Wednesday.
The Northern Plains was hit by another winter storm on Tuesday adding to the snowpack which ranges from several inches to several feet. So is it too early to start talking about planting delays?
It’s been a wet spring for many parts of the Corn Belt, and John Phipps says one of the advantages of his advancing age is the ability to start worrying earlier.
Grains end lower on improved weather and profit taking ahead of the 3-day holiday and the next WASDE. Live cattle rebound with higher beef prices, but will the recovery continue? Naomi Blohm of Total Farm Marketing.
USDA’s reports showed some surprises last week, including tighter than expected stocks. If China continues to buy corn, analysts say it creates even tighter old crop stocks, but if China quits buying, prices could drop.
Argentina announced a new preferential exchange rate dubbed the “agro dollar,” which aims to boost agricultural exports and strengthen international reserve accumulation.
While Tai has faced strong criticism about a lack of new trade agreements being pursued, she claimed this week that the U.S. is “nearing a consensus on the need to do things differently.”