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It expects Canada’s 2021-22 all wheat crop to drop 15.01 MMT (42.7%) from last season to 20.18 MMT.
Reuters is now reporting two of its sources indicate EPA has proposed retroactively lowering the 2020 Renewable Fuel Standard blending obligations in a nod to reduced fuel demand due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Areas of the Midwest and High Plains received welcome rainfall the week ending Aug. 24, leading to localized drought improvement. But areas that missed out saw drought conditions worsen over the past week.
Sales of old- and new-crop corn were in line with expectations. Soybean sales were strong, as expected, with much of the business known thanks to USDA’s daily reporting system.
Soybean basis slipped but the cash price rebounded.
ERS made upward revisions to its 2021 food inflation forecasts for all food, restaurant and grocery store prices.
USDA announced today that it is updating the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program 2 (CFAP 2) for contract producers of eligible livestock and poultry and producers of specialty crops and other sales-based commodities.
But cotton ratings shot higher once more as Texas continues to receive rain.
There were 401.26 million lbs. of beef in the nation’s freezers at the end of July, just a 256,000-MT decline from the end of June versus the five-year average increase of 23.6 million lbs. for the month.
The corn and soybean CCI ratings are the lowest of the growing season.
Corn, soybean and wheat futures are firmer to start the week. Livestock futures are also higher.
Chip Flory and Washington policy analyst Jim Wiesemeyer discuss current D.C. policy issues and events...
USDA also revised last week’s tally a substantial, 120,000 MT higher. Shipments of corn and soybeans were in line with expectations.
Pro Farmer estimates the U.S. corn crop at 15.116 billion bu. with an average yield of 177.0 bu. per acre. We estimate the U.S. soybean crop at 4.436 billion bu. on a national average yield of 51.2 bu. per acre.
This issue is all about our Crop Tour findings and our Pro Farmer crop estimates.
Rural Mainstreet Index finds ninth consecutive month of above growth neutral reading on rural economies.
Tune in for coverage of the last day of coverage with scouts sampling fields in Iowa and Minnesota. Results for these states will be unveiled at 8:00 p.m. CT.