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Confirming ag sector fears, the EPA announced today it plans to roll back the Trump Administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule and revise the definition of U.S. waterways that can be regulated.
USDA will update its old- and new-crop balance sheets, along with global production and provide the second estimate of the U.S. winter wheat crop.
Spring wheat crop conditions are deteriorating amid drought in the Northern Plains and PNW.
The corn CCI rating is still a little above average, despite the weekly decline.
Corn export inspections declined 691,290 MT from the previous week’s upwardly revised tally.
Grain and soybean futures gapped higher overnight, lean hog futures are posting fresh highs as live and feeder cattle futures soften.
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Farmers National notes strong gains in farmland values since Jan. 1.
![“Asian exporters are paying premium shipping rates, sometimes 10 times what the rate is for going from the [United] States back to Asia, and this shipping rate disparity incentivizes sending back those empty containers,” Borror said.](https://assets.farmjournal.com/dims4/default/92c7bcd/2147483647/strip/true/crop/840x561+0+19/resize/250x167!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffj-corp-pub.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fs3fs-public%2F2021-02%2FExport-ship-840.jpg)
Old-crop corn sales topped expectations, while new-crop sales were right in line with what the market expected. Exports of the grain held above 2 MMT.