Insights and Stories on USDA

USDA expects canola, sunflowers elsewhere to offset Canada’s shortfalls

Dec. 13, 2021 at 6:46 pm CST

MarketsFarm –– Good canola and rapeseed crops in Australia and a number of other parts of the world along with large world sunflower seed production should help offset Canada’s smaller-than-expected production somewhat, according to the December oil crops outlook from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Total global canola/rapeseed production is […]

U.S. grains: Wheat bounces from lowest in a month

Dec. 10, 2021 at 5:35 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Wheat hits one-month low on USDA projections

Dec. 9, 2021 at 4:05 pm CST

By Karl Plume Mark Weinraub

CBOT weekly outlook: No significant revisions in new U.S. WASDE report

Dec. 9, 2021 at 3:45 pm CST

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. grains: Wheat futures drop on weather view

Dec. 8, 2021 at 7:10 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

CBOT weekly outlook: Expect sideways trading during holiday season

Nov. 24, 2021 at 4:42 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Just as the United States enters its holiday season, starting with Thanksgiving, one analyst said movements on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) will most likely be sideways for the balance of 2021. “There’s good weather in South America, maybe too much rain in Australia. We have to […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. livestock: Live cattle notch 4-1/2-year high

Nov. 22, 2021 at 6:11 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Live cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) climbed for a fourth straight session on Monday, with front-month contract hitting a fresh 4-1/2-year high on strong demand. Lean hog futures also firmed, supported by good demand. Lighter-than-normal trading volumes aided livestock futures’ advance on Monday, […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures up for third straight day

Nov. 19, 2021 at 4:45 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — CME Group cattle futures rose for a third day in a row on Friday, with the front-month live cattle contract hitting a fresh 4-1/2-year high on strong cash markets and rising slaughter numbers. Hog futures were weaker on technical selling. CME’s most-active February live cattle contract […]

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs up, cattle weak

Nov. 16, 2021 at 5:27 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — CME Group lean hog futures rallied on Tuesday, supported by fund buying and expectations that supplies will begin to tighten in the coming weeks, traders said. Live cattle futures eased slightly for the second day in a row as the market waited for fresh bullish inputs […]

By Reuters

Prairie cash wheat: Bids jump after USDA projects cuts

Nov. 14, 2021 at 7:57 pm CST

MarketsFarm — A larger-than-expected cut in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) latest supply and demand forecast, plus rising wheat futures in anticipation of tighter worldwide supply, led to higher bids for western Canadian wheat for the week ended Thursday. USDA on Tuesday trimmed world wheat ending stocks to 275.8 […]

By Adam Peleshaty