Insights and Stories on USDA

U.S. grains: Corn, soy retreat as USDA’s supply cuts disappoint

Dec. 10, 2020 at 6:33 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures turned lower on Thursday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) trimmed its soybean supply outlook by less than expected and left its corn stocks view unchanged in an monthly report. Wheat futures pulled back from early highs on spillover pressure […]

CBOT weekly outlook: Some surprises in USDA’s WASDE

Dec. 10, 2020 at 4:07 pm CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Futures rebound on short covering, pre-report positioning

Dec. 9, 2020 at 7:11 pm CST

By Karl Plume

U.S. livestock: Short covering, bargain buying lift cattle, hog futures

Dec. 9, 2020 at 6:18 pm CST

By Karl Plume

Vilsack expected to return as USDA secretary

Dec. 8, 2020 at 8:17 pm CST

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures step back on demand uncertainty

Dec. 3, 2020 at 5:26 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Live cattle futures trimmed on Thursday as fears of additional pandemic closures weighed on the demand outlook, traders said. Chicago Mercantile Exchange February live cattle futures fell 1.35 cents to 112.575 cents/lb., the contract’s biggest decline in two weeks (all figures US$). CME January feeder cattle […]

By Christopher Walljasper

ICE weekly outlook: Two reports likely to increase canola values

Dec. 2, 2020 at 4:25 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Although canola has seen some backpedalling this week, the markets should get two good shots in the arm from a pair of reports, according to Wayne Palmer, analyst with Exceed Grains in Winnipeg. The first will very likely come from the principal field crops report , to be […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

CBOT weekly outlook: Markets could go higher after U.S. Thanksgiving

Nov. 25, 2020 at 4:57 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Just ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, the Chicago Board of Trade was pulling back a little, generating double-digit losses in most wheat contracts, while corn and soybeans were down by smaller amounts. However, from Steve Georgy, president of Allendale Inc. at Fort McHenry, Ill., […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. farmers seed more winter wheat as grain prices rally

Nov. 24, 2020 at 5:31 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. farmers expanded seedings of winter wheat this autumn for the first time in eight years as strong demand and dry weather in several producing countries fuels higher prices for the grain, farmers and analysts said. Winter wheat, seeded in the Northern Hemisphere in autumn for […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Live cattle futures up two per cent

Nov. 23, 2020 at 9:32 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. cattle futures closed higher on Monday, buoyed by Friday’s supportive monthly Cattle on Feed report, rising wholesale beef prices and strength on Wall Street tied to hopes for a COVID-19 vaccine, traders said. “All of the above (suggest) optimism for the meat market,” said Jason […]

By Julie Ingwersen