Insights and Stories on USDA

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 […]

Grains council tweaks numbers in latest supply and demand data

Sep. 23, 2021 at 8:15 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

CBOT weekly outlook: Harvest moving markets sideways

Sep. 22, 2021 at 12:02 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Interview: Counting crops in advance

Sep. 16, 2021 at 4:48 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans climb

Sep. 15, 2021 at 2:54 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

U.S. grains: Wheat firms on global supply cuts

Sep. 14, 2021 at 3:43 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures firmed two per cent on Tuesday, strengthened by global supply concerns amid strong demand, while a weaker U.S. dollar supported U.S. trade. Corn inched higher after a weekly decline in U.S crop conditions reported by the U.S. Agriculture Department (USDA). Soybeans traded both […]

By Christopher Walljasper

USDA’s September supply/demand data contain few surprises

Sep. 10, 2021 at 7:52 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — There was few, if any, surprises to be found for grain traders in the latest supply and demand report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The September world agriculture supply and demand estimates (WASDE) was pretty much stand-pat in terms of U.S. corn and soybeans, according to […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Soybeans firm, fail to erase earlier losses

Sep. 10, 2021 at 7:30 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybean futures firmed on Friday, following the U.S. Agriculture Department’s monthly supply and demand report showing a drop in harvested U.S. acres, though much of the reports findings had been anticipated by earlier trading. Corn traded near even, while wheat edged lower after touching a […]

By Christopher Walljasper

U.S. livestock: CME hog futures fall as pork demand softens

Sep. 10, 2021 at 7:23 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures fell for the sixth consecutive day on Friday, pressured by lower pork demand coinciding with larger hog supplies, analysts said. The hog market also felt the effects of investment funds liquidating long positions, traders said. “We saw a fair amount of […]

By Christopher Walljasper

U.S. grains: Corn, soybean, wheat fall ahead of USDA report

Sep. 9, 2021 at 6:32 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures fell to their lowest in 7-1/2 months on Thursday, under pressure from expectations that the U.S. government will raise its domestic production forecast, traders said. Wheat futures sank 2.4 per cent to their lowest in more than a month on follow-through technical selling […]

By Mark Weinraub