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On Friday, Jan. 11, USDA will release its final estimates on corn and soybean production and acreage for the 2012-13 crop year.
Growing demand for food in developing countries will continue to be a major driver of demand for corn and soybeans over next past decade.
Conditions in the nation’s third-largest corn-growing and fourth-largest soybean-producing state are rapidly deteriorating.
Crop conditions in the northern Corn Belt were holding on, but that may not longer true.
Average yields for corn and soybeans could drop dramatically lower, unless it starts raining and continues to rain hard every week across the central Corn Belt.
The start of summer has brought sweltering temperatures to the U.S. Corn Belt, where the corn and soybean crops are quickly fading.
Corn demand from ethanol is expected to drop by 75 million bushels over the next two years.
USDA’s grain stocks report released this morning raises the question as to what livestock producers are feeding their animals.
Will these changes decrease or increase market volatility?
Commodity exchange amends proposal for new limits to go further than originally proposed.