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Today’s agriculture headlines and expert perspectives serving farmers, ranchers, crop consultants, livestock nutritionists and the entire U.S. ag community.
Todd “Bubba” Horwitz reminds that bull markets always end... usually with a thud..
Consumers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for all meat food groups declined in June compared to May.
Our weighted Crop Condition Index shows the condition of the SRW and HRW crops improved marginally from last week.
Farmers worked to get as much done as they could over the weekend given chances of early week storms.
Todd “Bubba” Horwitz reminds that you need to keep your emotions in check and your opinion out of your decision making, it’s always about the money.
Building and sustaining a thriving farm operation requires more than just managing dollars and cents, according to a farmdoc Daily article by Michael Langemeier of Purdue University.
Leaders from OPEC met this week in Vienna to discuss output and other issues. Despite still-strong global crude oil inventories, the leaders of OPEC decided to maintain current production levels.
Our MarketWatch table features monthly and quarterly price outlooks, along with weekly prices for a wide range of ag markets.
Todd “Bubba” Horwitz explains the mechanics of creating your own basis when you hedge.
LimelightPlayerUtil.initEmbed(‘limelight_player_120600'); Pro Farmer’s Chip Flory and Brian Grete discuss the soymeal market for this week’s Profit Briefing segment on AgDay TV.
The behavior of wholesale bacon prices during the first half of the year can greatly influence market action during summer.
Chinese distillate exports are likely to rise as U.S. stocks decline seasonally. Firmer crude oil will limit the downside for farm diesel, as will agricultural demand for the time being.
LimelightPlayerUtil.initEmbed(‘limelight_player_517650'); Soybeans are 18 to 20 cents lower, with corn marginally to 1 cent firmer. Wheat is marginally to 3 cents lower. Cattle are sharply to limit lower and hogs are slightly lower.
LimelightPlayerUtil.initEmbed(‘limelight_player_501798'); AgDay anchor Clinton Griffiths and Davis Michaelsen discuss the current state of fertilizer prices and what will drive price action through the summer months.
Anhydrous firmed only slightly this week as preplant applications decline sharply. We look ahead to UAN prices for post emerge applications and what anhydrous price action might tell us.
However, the relationship of hog weights and prices is not nearly as strong for the hog market as is the case in the cattle market.
Our MarketWatch table features monthly and quarterly price outlooks, along with weekly prices for a wide range of ag markets.