Insights and Stories on USDA

U.S. livestock: Supply, demand worries pull hogs from four-month high

Dec. 18, 2017 at 5:25 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures eased from a four-month top on Monday, pressured by uneasiness over burdensome supplies and tepid meat demand, said traders. Technical selling and futures’ premiums to CME’s hog index for Dec. 14 at 64.11 cents further weighed on the market, they […]

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn, soy rebound on short-covering

Dec. 13, 2017 at 6:46 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soy look vulnerable to downside

Dec. 13, 2017 at 5:34 pm CST

By Dave Sims

U.S. grains: Soybeans sag as South American crop prospects improve

Dec. 12, 2017 at 5:00 pm CST

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. soybean, wheat ending stocks seen up as exports fall

Dec. 12, 2017 at 2:52 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: CME hogs at three-month low on cash, pork prices

Dec. 11, 2017 at 4:52 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs drifted to a three-month bottom on Monday, in response to lower cash and wholesale pork prices, said traders. Sell stops and deferred-month future’s premiums to CME’s hog index for Dec. 7 at 65.48 cents further weighed on contracts. December hogs, which […]

By Theopolis Waters

CBOT weekly outlook: Soybean markets excite while corn settles

Dec. 6, 2017 at 6:39 pm CST

CNS Canada — Soybean prices on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) are finding support from Argentina weather while corn markets remain stuck in sideways trading, according to a Chicago trader. “The corn markets have kind of been left out of the Argentina weather equation with heavy fund selling here […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Soybeans, meal rise on Argentina weather

Dec. 4, 2017 at 6:47 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures rose to a three-week high on Monday and soymeal jumped more than two per cent on buying backed by concerns that dry weather in Argentina will hurt crop yields. Corn futures fell more than one per cent, reversing early gains after technical selling, […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. livestock: Hogs retreat after trading at three-week high

Nov. 29, 2017 at 6:59 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures fell on Wednesday, retreating from a three-week high on technical selling and a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report showing a jump in average hog weights in Iowa and southern Minnesota, analysts said. Live cattle and feeder cattle futures rose on short-covering […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Corn up on export demand, technical bounce

Nov. 29, 2017 at 5:11 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures rose about one per cent Wednesday on fresh export demand and bargain-buying after the spot December contract dipped to a contract low, traders said. Wheat futures firmed, stabilizing after a series of contract lows in recent days, while soybeans ended fractionally lower after […]

By Julie Ingwersen