Price action in overnight trading of CME grain and soy contracts was mixed with minor changes. USDA’s weekly export sales report was the main fundamentally-related factor for grain and soy markets to ponder today, led by strong corn sales. General Comments USDA’s weekly export sales report was the main fundamentally-related factor for grain and soy markets to ponder today, led by strong corn sales. Last week’s export corn sales for 2015/16 reached a crop year high of 2.1606 MMT along with 2016/17 sales of 440,000 MT. The latter added about 20 percent to the previous total of new crop corn sales. Soybean sales were modest at 226,000 MT for 2015/16 but more impressive at 720,400 MT for 2016/17. Old crop soymeal sales of 209,600 MT were good...
What You Need to Know Today: A third U.S. border crossing (Columbus, New Mexico) has reopened to Mexican cattle imports following nearly two years of restrictions related to New World screwworm. The reopening could gradually improve feeder cattle availability, although more than 60 confi...
Yesterday, the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released a new report of negotiated cash purchases of cattle under the mandatory price report. The report included Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. The goal of the report was to solve the confidentiality issues e...
Key Takeaways: U.S. soybean crushing began in 1911 and saw its most rapid expansion during the 1930s amid the broader agricultural and technology revolutions of the time. After peaking in the early 2000s, the soybean crushing industry went through a downturn as poor crush margins forced...
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