Commodity Markets, Prices & Futures
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Latest News from Markets
Chip Flory has a tight grip on agriculture’s tape measure. When an army of 150 scouts from 12 countries marches across U.S. farmland with ropes and smartphones, Flory knows there is a meticulous method to the madness.
U.S. soy processors, fresh off their busiest year on record, have booked soybean purchases well beyond their normal few weeks of supply due to soaring export demand, rising prices and fears of soy shortages.
After corn and soybean prices soared last week once the USDA’s WASDE report was released, grains and oilseeds seem to have taken a different path this week. So, is the grain rally over? Bob Utterback weighs in.
All the major variables were hit in 2020.
AFBF wants USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) to improve transparency and better embrace emerging technology in making crop estimates, determining ag census numbers and other ag reporting.
There is no “bailout” in commodity markets — just risk. It makes me crazy when someone says, “The bulls were bailed out by Chinese buying.” Or, “The bears got bailed out by those rains.”
We will have to see if President Joe Biden wants to expand Chinese demand. Additionally, we must watch the COVID-19 situation.
Have your adviser compute reasonable 12-month price targets given the latest fundamental and technical information.
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