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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Technical selling slow exports weigh on grains, despite sharply lower dollar. Cattle up on lower corn & higher DOW. Hogs follow lower cash. Michelle Rook w/ Jeff Hoogendoorn of Professional Ag Marketing.
Grain and livestock futures open mixed with CPI data supporting outside markets & dollar plunging. Exports disappointing and market is still digesting the WASDE. Michelle Rook w/ Steve Freed of ADMIS.
Corn, wheat lower after WASDE w/ technical selling and possible extension of export deal. Soybeans shook off higher ending stocks on export biz, higher BO. Michelle Rook w/Chip Nellinger Blue Reef Agri-Marketing.
Grains turn mixed after initially moving lower following WASDE w/slight increase in corn, soybean and cotton yields, production and ending stocks. Michelle Rook is w/Jim McCormick of AgMarket.Net.
Mostly lower markets with spillover from a risk off day in outside markets w/election reaction, report positioning. Soybeans are holding up w/ 17 mb of export biz. Michelle Rook with Rich Nelson of Allendale.
China’s economy has been slowing the past several months due to continued COVID lockdowns. Since the Chinese election, however, stories have been flip flopping on a possible change in policy.
The midterm elections are critical for agriculture because whichever party controls the House and Senate will trickle down to the leadership of the ag and budget committees as they write a new farm bill.
Markets close mostly lower w/ technical selling in the grains, report positioning and fading export biz. Livestock consolidated in an inside day. Michelle Rook is joined by Garrett Toay of AgTraderTalk.
Wheat and corn lower on technical selling, lower crude oil and report positioning, while soybeans get help from export biz. Profit taking and money flow hit the livestock. @michellerookag @scottevarilek
Corn a& beans lower with technical selling, report positioning, despite fresh export biz. Wheat sees technical bounce watching news on export deal. Livestock see profit taking. @michellerookag @NollFamilyFarm