Insights and Stories on USDA

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce ahead of USDA data

Mar. 28, 2019 at 3:29 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures inched higher on Thursday as traders covered shorts and squared positions a day after a steep drop to four-month lows and on the eve of U.S. government stocks and planting reports. Corn futures were flat as improving crop prospects in South America offset […]

CBOT weekly outlook: Markets at mercy of weather

Mar. 27, 2019 at 4:01 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Soybeans sink on hefty supplies, trade worries

Mar. 27, 2019 at 3:40 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

U.S. livestock: Live cattle tumble on bearish USDA data

Mar. 25, 2019 at 5:12 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

U.S. grains: Corn up on China buying, flood worries

Mar. 22, 2019 at 7:41 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs notch fresh contract highs on export hopes

Mar. 22, 2019 at 7:11 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures rose to contract highs for a third straight session on Friday on hopes for strong demand from China before easing from those peaks on profit-taking and technical selling, traders said. China is expected to be in the market for imported […]

By Karl Plume

Grain markets walled off from flood impacts by mountains of supplies

Mar. 22, 2019 at 1:26 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — A massive supply of grains has shielded the futures markets from the impact of flooding in the U.S. Midwest so far, with traders largely shrugging off this week’s reports of destroyed storage bins, swamped elevators and questions about if waters will recede in time for planting. […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: Hogs limit up again on China swine fever fears

Mar. 21, 2019 at 7:04 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures rallied by their daily trading limits for a second straight day on Thursday on expectations that imports by China would surge as the country’s domestic hog herd is ravaged by a deadly hog disease. All hog contracts posted new contract […]

By Karl Plume

CBOT weekly outlook: African swine fever paralyzes futures

Mar. 20, 2019 at 8:31 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Ahead of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s next crop report due out March 29, market experts are looking to headlines for direction in the Chicago futures. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin return to China next week, with the goal of hammering out a […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

U.S. livestock: Hog futures rise on pork export optimism

Mar. 18, 2019 at 6:49 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. front-month hog futures surged on Monday, extending last week’s advances on expectations of additional export sales to China, where African swine fever has decimated the world’s largest hog herd, traders said. “We had that huge sale of pork to China last week, and the market […]

By Julie Ingwersen