Agriculture News
Grain and soy futures opened under hefty pressure on weekend rains. Fat cattle futures are under pressure as lean hogs firm.
Find highlights from today’s weekly USDA Crop Progress and Condition Report.
The corn and soybean CCI ratings were little changed over the past week, but the spring wheat crop continues to deteriorate.
June 1 grain stocks will be down sharply, but history signals there could be surprises.
Proposition 12 imposes what opponents claim is arbitrary animal housing standards that reach far outside of California’s borders to farms across the country, and bans the sale of pork that does not meet those standards.
Find updates to our short-term, intermediate- and long-term trends for commodity and key outside markets.
But today’s update also featured upside revisions to USDA’s initially reported soybean and especially corn export inspections for the week ending June 17.
Spring wheat futures continue to climb, soybeans are sharply higher as well with corn futures mildly higher. Cattle futures are mixed and mostly weaker as hog futures firm.
Prices are expected to rise for all three categories by more than their 20-year average.
Inside you’ll find weather updates, both sides of the livestock pricing issue, an update on an infrastructure deal and market-by-market analysis and marketing advice.
The measure includes $579 billion in new spending on infrastructure, for a total price tag of $1.2 trillion over eight years.