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Today’s commodity market news. Featuring expert analysis from Michelle Rook, Jerry Gulke and Pro Farmer Editors.
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
When Trump Puts America First, These Commodities Are at Risk
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.
In a letter, President Trump dipping into the industry’s battle with independent oil refiners over whether parts of a federal mandate should be changed.
Nine members of the House of Representatives have pressed U.S. Trade Ambassador Michael Froman to push for reduced tariffs on U.S. energy products including ethanol, according to a letter dated March 21.
First Biorefinery Demonstration Facility, Ethanol Share to Rise by 2035
E85 Sales Shoot Upward in Iowa, Indiana Adds a Facility, From Pennycress to Biodiesel, A Pump First for New Jersey.
Tastes Like Chicken, Ethanol Industry Shifts Sideways, Scientists Support Biodiesel.
USDA’s end-of-March Prospective Plantings report always brings a few surprises. This year will likely be the same.
Everything ended the week down hard as traders took a risk-off attitude toward market positions. Part of the reason was the dollar’s rally, which made even French corn competitive for importers.
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These estimates are based on assumptions for normal weather through September.
Official Day 4 results from the Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour.
Official Day 4 results from the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour.
On the western leg of the 2017 Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour, AgDay’s Betsy Jibben found a father and son scout team who saw less than expected corn yields.