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CBOT Weekly: Projections, tensions pressure prices

Jul. 30, 2025 at 3:32 pm CDT

Projections of high yields and ongoing political tensions pressured grain prices on the Chicago Board of Trade during the week ended July 30, 2025.

A charity distributes meals to Palestinians facing food shortages amid ongoing Israeli attacks and severe restrictions in Gaza City, Gaza on July 28, 2025.

Foodgrains Bank sounds alarm on slow progress in addressing global hunger

Jul. 30, 2025 at 11:45 am CDT

By Geralyn Wichers

Overhead shot of a grain cargo ship at a pier.

Bangladesh to buy 220,000 tons of U.S. wheat to cool tariff tension

Jul. 30, 2025 at 10:21 am CDT

By Reuters Ruma Paul

Locusts gathered on the end of a plant stem.

Locusts spread in Ukraine’s south as war disrupts control measures

Jul. 30, 2025 at 10:17 am CDT

By Reuters

View of cattle's backs through the bars of a gate.

U.S. livestock: Cattle climb on low inventory, anticipated tariffs

Jul. 29, 2025 at 5:53 pm CDT

By Geralyn Wichers

Chicago, Illinois, USA - March 28, 2022: Chicago Board of Trade office in Chicago. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the world's oldest futures and options exchanges.

U.S. grains: Corn, soy futures extend slide on milder weather forecasts

Jul. 29, 2025 at 5:12 pm CDT

Chicago corn and soybean futures fell on Tuesday for a third straight session as forecasts for cooler Midwest temperatures this week and continued periodic rains reinforced expectations for ample U.S. harvests, analysts said.

By Julie Ingwersen Reuters

China’s soymeal glut raises demand doubts ahead of US soybean export season

Jul. 29, 2025 at 10:47 am CDT

China's appetite for soybeans is likely to weaken during the peak U.S. marketing season later this year, as record imports earlier in 2025 and tepid demand from animal feed producers have pushed up soymeal inventories at home, trade sources said.

By Ella Cao Naveen Thukral Reuters

Potash miner K+S reports Q2 core profit miss, confirms 2025 guidance

Jul. 29, 2025 at 10:39 am CDT

German potash and salt miner K+S, which has a site at Bethune, Saskatchewan, on Tuesday reported second-quarter core profit below expectations but reaffirmed its 2025 guidance.

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn futures hit two-week low; soy slides, wheat steadies

Jul. 28, 2025 at 5:00 pm CDT

U.S. corn futures hit a two-week low on Monday and soybeans also fell as market players continued to brace for large crops and forecasts called for milder, non-threatening weather in the Midwest production belt.

By Julie Ingwersen Reuters

Dryness reduces Australian wheat output says USDA attaché

Jul. 28, 2025 at 3:19 pm CDT

With dry conditions in Australia’s southern production regions, the United States Department of Agriculture attaché in Canberra projected reduced wheat production for 2025/26. The attaché wrote in their report released on July 28 that Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria had low soil moisture levels going into wheat planting and there was below-average autumn rains.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm