Insights and Stories on USDA

Mar. 24, 2015 at 3:16 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat tumbled as much as two per cent on Tuesday as investors took profits after the previous session’s five-week high and extended weather outlooks showed the possibility of crop-friendly rains in the U.S. and Russia. Soybean futures also were lower at the Chicago Board of […]

By Michael Hirtzer

Mar. 23, 2015 at 8:25 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. government is developing a vaccine to protect poultry from new strains of avian flu that have recently killed birds from Arkansas to Washington state. Within two months, scientists at a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) research lab in Georgia will test the vaccine on […]

By Tom Polansek

Mar. 17, 2015 at 5:04 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. soybean futures sagged 1.5 per cent to their lowest in almost five months on Tuesday, with export demand for U.S. supplies fading amid the expanding harvest in Argentina and Brazil, traders said. “The fundamentals are not friendly here; the South American crops are coming in […]

By Mark Weinraub

Mar. 10, 2015 at 5:01 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures fell on Tuesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture surprised analysts by leaving its forecast of domestic soy inventories unchanged in a monthly report. A strong dollar hung over the commodities sector, pressuring grains as well as crude oil and […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Mar. 10, 2015 at 4:47 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — U.S. and world corn supplies are projected to be smaller than expected by the end of the marketing year due to rising export demand, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Tuesday. The government also left its outlook for domestic soybean supplies unchanged and lowered U.S. wheat […]

By Mark Weinraub