President Trump on Monday signaled he could impose new tariffs on agricultural products

Alan Brugler with A&N Economics, Inc. says the soybean market continues to be plagued by uncertainty over China’s soybean purchase commitments and a close below $11 projects lower prices.

Preemptive control of heavy-hitting diseases like white mold, frogeye leaf spot, Cercospora leaf blight and others is now possible thanks to specially designed soybeans that act like an early warning system, enabling proactive fungicide treatments and yield protection.

Brad Kooima says both live and feeder cattle futures markets struggled Monday as the huge recovery off the lows put contracts up into 50% retracement levels.

Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group, says the close in soybeans was bearish as it confirmed a head and shoulders top by taking out the neckline at $11.13 and closing below that chart area

Soybean futures ended sharply lower on Friday, with the January contract down 33¢ for the week. Matt Bennett with AgMarket.Net says the poor close is tied to mixed messages about a signed soybean agreement with China and sales progress.

Scott Varilek with Kooima Kooima Varilek says Thursday saw the volume of live sale prices at $220, up $10 from last week but even some $222 developed in Iowa.

Tommy Grisafi with Nesvick Trading says bull markets need to be fed daily and so corn and soybeans would need a combination of factors to converge to retest the November highs.

China’s pork prices have been declining all year are likely set to drop even lower.

Vince Boddicker with Farmers Trading Company says grains took the path of least resistance on Wednesday trading lower with a lack of fresh bullish news.