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Farm leaders urged lawmakers to work quickly to include additional aid for farmers.
Greg McBride with Allendale, Inc. says hot, dry weather is expected in much of Argentina and Southern Brazil in the next 10 days and it is hitting at the critical pod filling stage for some of the soybean crop.
Soybean futures are higher early Wednesday with the easing of risk-off selling pressure.
Grains futures consolidated on Tuesday with risk-off selling tied to outside market concerns regarding possible EU tariffs and retaliation according to Oliver Sloup with Blue Line Futures.
Brad Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek says with the confirmation of no cases of NWS in the U.S. the cattle market should rebound Tuesday. However, with outside markets seeing risk off selling that may temper some of the buying interest in cattle.
Jerry Gulke, president of The Gulke Group, says the report provided some valuable lessons about marketing.
Shawn Hackett with Hackett Financial Advisors says with corn and soybean prices plunging at the beginning of the week in response to the bearish USDA report, the lower price levels stimulated end user buying.
Joe Kooima with Kooima Kooima Varilek says cattle futures were down early on liquidation ahead of the three day weekend, lack of fed cash news and a rumor of NWS in the U.S.
John Heinberg with Total Farm Marketing says soybeans rallied with the surging bean oil market on Thursday on talk of favorable biofuels policy in the Renewable Fuels Standard.
Allison Thompson with The Money Farm thinks the bearish USDA report news is priced into the market and this weeks lows are likely to hold.