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Brian Grete, Pro Farmer editor, says wheat led the price rally in wheat once again adding weather premium on global production concerns.
USDA raised its 2024 beef production forecast 139 million lbs. from last month on expectations of higher slaughter during the second half of the year and heavier carcass weights.
Grain & livestock futures are mostly higher. Brad Kooima, Kooima Kooima Varilek says cattle are at a discount to steady to higher cash which is supportive, Hogs see short covering. Grains continue to add risk premium.
Chip Nellinger, Blue Reef Agri-Marketing, says if rains continue to delay planting and wheat areas like Russia and the Southwest Plains miss forecasted rains that could continue to drive buying interest in the grains.
Grains end higher on Friday after the WASDE but was the market trading the report or was it weather and fund short covering? Chip Nellinger, Blue Reef Agri-Marketing, has more plus talks cattle.
Soybean production is cut; and a Brazilian soy crusher halted operations amid severe flooding.
Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group, says in the report USDA finally rectified the old crop corn carryover figure trimming it by 100 million bushels with an increase in demand.
As corn and soy prices hit a three-year low, farmers are less inclined to invest in new machinery, leading to an inventory surplus and reduced sales for equipment dealers. Notably...
Grains higher post-WASDE. U.S. numbers came in friendly for corn, neutral for wheat but bearish for soybeans. So, is the market trading the report or is it fund short covering? Matt Bennett, AgMarket.Net, has more.
Cattle and hogs both try to bounce but the cattle market lacks confidence due to bird flu says Scott Varilek, Kooima Kooima Varilek. Grains higher but can those gains hold in the face of a potentially bearish WASDE?