Insights and Stories on USDA

U.S. livestock: CME hog futures rise on sustained buying

Sep. 30, 2021 at 3:52 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures closed higher on Thursday on continued buying interest tied to the recent bullish quarterly hog report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), traders said. CME October lean hogs settled up 0.8 cent at 91.6 cents/lb., while the most-active […]

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans, wheat move higher

Sep. 29, 2021 at 6:49 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: CME hog futures pause after rally

Sep. 29, 2021 at 6:39 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. puts up funds to prevent African swine fever

Sep. 29, 2021 at 4:48 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME hog futures extend rally on USDA data

Sep. 28, 2021 at 7:04 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Corn down off four-week top

Sep. 28, 2021 at 4:18 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures fell more than one per cent on Tuesday on macroeconomic worries as the dollar strengthened and crude oil futures turned down, and on harvest-related selling as combines rolled in the heart of the Midwest crop belt, analysts said. Soybeans and wheat followed the […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Corn futures up on firm cash markets

Sep. 27, 2021 at 7:20 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures rose about two per cent on Monday, rallying from early declines on support from tight domestic cash markets and spillover strength from crude oil futures, analysts said. Soybean futures climbed as China booked several U.S. cargos of the oilseed but wheat futures ended […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: CME hogs surge on bullish USDA data

Sep. 27, 2021 at 7:14 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures soared on Monday, with the most-active December contract rising its daily limit after a quarterly U.S. Department of Agriculture report showed a smaller-than-expected U.S. hog herd. CME October lean hogs settled up 2.975 cents at 90.25 cents/lb., and the […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: CME hogs rise, live cattle slip ahead of USDA reports

Sep. 24, 2021 at 5:31 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures climbed on Friday, largely supported by positioning ahead of a key hog inventory report issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) after the close, analysts said. Higher cash pork prices and the still-wide discount of futures to cash […]

By Karl Plume

Grains council tweaks numbers in latest supply and demand data

Sep. 23, 2021 at 8:15 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The International Grains Council (IGC) released its monthly supply and demand report Thursday, projecting a six million-tonne increase in total global grain production at 2.289 billion tonnes in 2021-22. That change consisted of a seven million-tonne increase in global corn production, offset by a one million-tonne decrease in […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm