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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Cattle shook off a bearish a Cattle on Feed placements number, while hogs consolidated. John Payne with Advance Trading, discusses where the markets head next.
Cattle getting some help from ideas the cash market may be close to a bottom. Grains continue to digest Pro Farmer Crop Tour results and weather.
Pro Farmer confirms record soybean crop and bumper corn crop. What does that mean for the harvest and post-harvest outlook for the market?
Pro Farmer Lowers Corn Yield and Production From USDA’s August Estimate, But Raises Soybean Yield and Production to Record Levels.
Newsom looks at when corn and soybeans normally put in a harvest low and if that changes when there are predictions for bumper crops.
Low Feed Prices Make Cattle Margins Attractive
Chip Nellinger, Blue Reef Agri-Marketing, says time is running out on old crop sales.
Excess old crop supplies of corn need to be moved before a record crop is harvested. Tomm Pfitzenmaier of Summit Commodity Brokerage shares some options.
Markets will look for confirmation of record yields from the tour for direction.
Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group, points to flawed biofuels policy as an anchor on the soybean market.