Insights and Stories on USDA

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures ease ahead of USDA report

Oct. 19, 2018 at 4:36 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange livestock futures were lower on Friday, with both live cattle and lean hogs easing on worries that U.S. supplies were growing faster than demand, traders and analysts said. Cattle futures declined ahead of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s monthly Cattle on Feed report, […]

U.S. grains: Soybeans down as exports disappoint, weather improves

Oct. 18, 2018 at 7:02 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Hogs extend slide, fall below seven-week lows

Oct. 18, 2018 at 5:46 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Soybeans firm on fund-driven buying

Oct. 17, 2018 at 7:02 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Hogs decline on heavier animals, technical selling

Oct. 17, 2018 at 6:23 pm CDT

By Michael Hirtzer

World crop briefs: Black Sea’s oilseed yields seen larger

Oct. 17, 2018 at 5:05 pm CDT

CNS Canada — The Black Sea region’s oilseed crop for 2018-19 is estimated 160,000 tonnes higher, at 43.36 million tonnes, according to the latest estimates by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In its October estimates, USDA estimated Ukraine rapeseed production would come in at 100,000 tonnes more than previous estimates […]

By MarketsFarm Team

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures mostly lower on technical selling

Oct. 16, 2018 at 6:01 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. cattle futures were mostly lower on Tuesday while lean hogs pared gains late in the session, with each pressured in part by technical selling and profit-taking, traders and analysts said. Some traders were liquidating positions in Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures ahead of a monthly […]

By Michael Hirtzer

Pulse weekly outlook: U.S. beans seen on rise for 2019

Oct. 16, 2018 at 2:54 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– The acreage shift that played out between chickpeas and dry edible beans this year will shift again next year, Brian Clancey of marketing agency Stat Publishing predicts. Several factors lead him to that conclusion, he said. Canadian growers ship large numbers of beans and chickpeas to the […]

By Terry Fries

U.S. grains: Crop forecasts lift corn, soy for second day

Oct. 12, 2018 at 7:53 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures rose for a second straight session on Friday on short-covering and follow-through buying after a government report the prior day forecast a smaller-than-expected U.S. harvest. Corn also advanced after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) unexpectedly cut its U.S. corn yield outlook in […]

By Karl Plume

CBOT weekly outlook: Traders think soy yields less than USDA predicting

Oct. 11, 2018 at 8:27 pm CDT

CNS Canada — After the wet weather the U.S. Midwest has experienced lately, traders aren’t exactly sold on the latest numbers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). “We’re getting a lot of calls in and people talking about their beans are losing yield left and right, because the pods […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm