Markets Now
National reporter Michelle Rook talks daily with industry analysts to break down crop and livestock commodity markets. Listen below to learn what’s happening with the markets when they open, at midday and again at close.
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Grains up on holiday positioning, friendly outside markets and fresh corn and soybean export sales. Cattle are higher with steady to better cash news and report positioning, while lower cash is pressuring hogs.
Grains finish mostly lower Thursday with profit taking, slow exports and negativity in outside macro markets. What will be the focus for markets to end the year? Tommy Grisafi of Advance Trading provides insight.
Grains lower except HRW wheat with profit taking, disappointing exports and GDP news pulling down futures. Cattle mixed, with hogs higher ahead of reports. Mike Zuzulo of Global Commodity Analytics has analysis.
Grains mixed with profit taking and slow exports weighing on row crops, wheat supported by weather. Livestock open lower then turn mixed with holiday, EOY and report positioning. Michelle Rook breaks it down.
AgDay TV Markets Now: What drove the commodity wide rally Wednesday and pushed live cattle into new contract highs? Will it continue? All questions Michelle Rook asks Darren Frye of Water Street Solutions.
Grain and livestock futures close higher on Wednesday. What was behind the commodity wide rally? Darren Frye of Water Street Solutions has the answer.
Winter weather is packing a punch across much of farm country this week. However, its being somewhat ignored by the trade.
Grain and livestock futures are mostly higher midday with weather, end of year positioning and light holiday trade all contributing to the rally. Chip Nellinger of Blue Reef Agri-Marketing has more.
Proposed farmworker labor reforms from Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and others were left out of the omnibus spending package but farm groups are continuing to push for immigration reform.
AgDay TV Markets Now features Brian Grete of Pro Farmer talks with Michelle Rook about the how the light holiday volume is fueling the rally in the grains and if soybeans can get over $15.