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Today’s commodity market news. Featuring expert analysis from Michelle Rook, Jerry Gulke and Pro Farmer Editors.
Markets soared this week after just a half-bushel drop in national soybean yield. Why is that? What does the future hold for the legume?
Grain markets are driven by lower supplies and higher demand.
Analysts say the trade expected a bullish USDA report. With minimal changes, traders sold the market and commodity prices dropped.
A challenging growing season in the U.S. and a turnaround in Chinese demand facilitated a black swan event to change the soybean outlook.
The story in U.S. commodity prices is changing quickly as massive money flow is pouring into the commodity markets. So, what could reverse the trend? U.S. Farm Report analysts weigh in.
Mike North of ever.ag thinks the market is already pricing in minor reductions in the upcoming USDA report. So, what will it take to give the market more fuel moving forward?
2020 was a dynamic year in the markets. From the pandemic causing prices to plummet in the spring to a dramatic recovery during the fall, analysts say key lessons were learned along the way.
Watch analysis of Tuesday’s USDA reports with AgriTalk’s Chip Flory, USDA Chief Economist Seth Meyer and others.
With just eight days left in EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s term, RFA president and CEO Geoff Cooper weighs in on worst-case scenarios and his optimism about the new administration.
This month’s 2020/21 U.S. corn outlook is for lower production, reduced corn used for ethanol, smaller feed and residual use and exports, and decreased ending stocks.
Final 2020 crop numbers from USDA put the overall corn crop at 14.2 billion bushels and soybeans at 4.14 billion bushels, both below trade expectations.
U.S. soybean and corn futures climbed to fresh 6-1/2 year highs on Wednesday, as worries about dry weather hurting Argentine crops attracted speculative buyers, analysts said.
2020 ended on a high note for soybeans as prices soared past $13, so will demand be enough to push prices even higher in the New Year? Dan Basse and Arlan Suderman explore 2021.
Here’s a look at what analysts are expecting for the upcoming growing season in 2021.
Unprecedented corn price momentum this fall was driven largely by demand. As analysts focus on 2021, Dan Basse of AgResource Company explains why the stage may be set for an ag bull market to drive prices even higher.
From Pro Farmer’s First Thing Today, these are some of the stories we are watching on Monday, December 14.
USDA raised its estimate for China corn imports, a step some analysts think is just the start. Darren Frye and Arlan Suderman debate whether China’s corn imports will live up to analysts’ expectations.
Despite a disappointing end to 2020, a positive story is unfolding for the cattle markets in 2021. Sue Martin and DuWayne Bosse explain why the last half of 2021 could produce better prices.
Grain markets have a history of changing direction around a holiday. They sure did after Thanksgiving.
Rarely do we producers have the luxury of making planting decisions based on profit potential—regardless of planting choices.
Newly revised numbers from the Commerce Department are indicating the gross domestic product (GDP) of the United States increased 3.1 percent from April to June, the fastest growth rate in more than two years.
Pacific Nations Agree to Save TPP Trade Pact Without US Involvement
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Mexico’s move to start allowing some imports of American chicken and turkey from states with commercial bird- flu cases signals that the disease’s threat to U.S. poultry exports is starting to subside.
Despite the U.S. dollar’s antics, there has been little change in sources of the cheapest grains.
Don’t let the busyness of spring overshadow marketing responsibilities
The biodiesel tax incentive program expires at the end of this calendar year. Congressional sources signal that another extension is likely, but the timeline on when that takes place is murky. Contacts are not ruling out a one- or two-year extension in a post-election, lame-duck session of Congress, while others say this issue could be bumped to a new Congress in 2017.
China’s Food Giant Emerges as Leading Exporter of Brazil Soy
Doug Parker, the previous director of the EPA’s criminal investigation division and now president of the consultancy Earth and Water Strategies LLC, said the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program is vulnerable to scams that have bilked victims out of nearly $1 billion so far.