Agriculture News
While USDA lowered both the national corn and soybean yields from August, both were above the average analyst estimate, along with 2025-26 ending stocks.
Corn and wheat futures are mildly higher with soybeans near unchanged. Cattle futures are trying to work higher with hog futures mixed...
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Wheat sales for the week ended Aug. 28 were down 46% from the previous week and 51% from the four-week average. New-crop corn sales were strong, while net soybean sales were near the low end of pre-report expectations.
Corn and soybean acres impacted by drought increase slightly
Union Pacific is pursuing an acquisition of Northfolk Southern but will have to meet an elevated standard before being approved. The merger could be in opposition to President Trump’s executive order on monopolies.
Dry weather across portions of the country are impacting conditions.
A look into what the market typically looks like in September.
Corn, soybeans and wheat are under pressure to start the week with livestock futures on the rise...
Traders were expecting net new-crop soybean sales for the week ended Aug. 21 to range from 450,000 MT to 1.0 MMT.