Insights and Stories on USDA

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

Oct. 18, 2018 at 5:46 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures slid for the third consecutive session on Thursday and touched their lowest prices in more than seven weeks on concerns about increasing supplies, traders said. The market has weakened since contracts set multi-month highs on Oct. 1 amid worries about […]

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

By MarketsFarm Team

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

Oct. 16, 2018 at 6:01 pm CDT

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

U.S. grains: Corn hits seven-week high on USDA’s surprise yield cut

Oct. 11, 2018 at 7:32 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures jumped more than 1 percent to a seven-week high on Thursday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) unexpectedly cut its yield forecast for the 2018 crop, leaving stocks of the grain lower than anticipated. Soybean futures followed corn higher, reversing earlier losses […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rise on cut in beef production estimate

Oct. 11, 2018 at 7:18 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. cattle futures rose on Thursday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture trimmed its forecast for how much beef the nation will produce this year. In a monthly supply and demand report, USDA pegged 2018 beef output at 26.9 billion pounds, down 0.6 per cent from […]

By Tom Polansek