Market Bracing for Bearish H&P Data

We fear the numbers could come in even bigger than signaled by a Reuters poll of analysts based on recent slaughter tallies.

Declining U.S. crop conditions offset by improving growing weather forecasts.

Pro Farmer editors provide daily updates on advice, including if now is a good time to catch up on cash sales.

Cordonnier lowered his planted and harvested acreage estimates for both crops.

Grains adding production risk premiums.

Iran says new U.S. sanctions end any chance of diplomacy

Fertilizers were mostly lower with only DAP posting a higher price on the week.

Spring wheat development is also lagging the norm by a wide margin. Get more highlights from today's Crop Progress Report.

Excessive soil moisture has corn and soybean CCI well below their respective five-year averages.

Late-season rains pulled down the SRW and HRW CCI ratings. Dryness caused the spring wheat CCI rating to drop.

Markets may pause until end of the week reports and U.S./China meetings in Japan.

Producers there now have until July 15 to report spring prevented plant acres.

China "continues to conduct itself like a little kid who wants to see how seriously her parents will enforce the rules," says the author of this guest blog post.

Get more highlights from today’s Weekly Export Inspections Report.

Doane economists provide a visual update on short-term, intermediate and long-term trends for commodity and key outside markets.