Insights and Stories on USDA

ICE weekly outlook: Canola market awaits harvests, USDA

Sep. 8, 2021 at 7:36 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Canola contracts on the ICE Futures platform drifted lower during the week ended Wednesday, although the market remains stuck in a sideways trading pattern overall as participants try to get a better handle on the size of this year’s crop. An upcoming supply/demand report from the U.S. Department […]

CBOT weekly outlook: ‘Tricky’ USDA report due Friday

Sep. 8, 2021 at 7:19 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Wheat futures fall, soybeans rise, corn flat

Sep. 8, 2021 at 6:55 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn, wheat end firmer on bargain buying

Sep. 2, 2021 at 6:44 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle end up off six-session skid

Sep. 1, 2021 at 8:10 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

CBOT weekly outlook: Soybeans, corn looking past hurricane

Sep. 1, 2021 at 2:43 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Hurricane Ida has wreaked havoc on the U.S. Gulf Coast, pressuring Chicago Board of Trade soybean and corn futures as exports face disruptions — but the market is reacting more to what’s coming next than what has already happened, an analyst says. “I don’t know what the ramifications, […]

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. reports world’s first deer with COVID-19

Aug. 27, 2021 at 2:50 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. government said Friday it had confirmed the world’s first cases of COVID-19 in deer, expanding the list of animals known to have tested positive for the disease. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported infections of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in wild white-tailed […]

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures fall on lower cash cattle

Aug. 26, 2021 at 6:17 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures fell for a third day on Thursday, as the softer cash market in the southern U.S. Plains weighed on futures, traders said. “This cash just continues to struggle,” said Joe Kooima, commodity broker at Kooima Kooima Varilek Trading Inc. “We’ve […]

By Christopher Walljasper

Washington state eradicates first ‘murder hornet’ nest of the year

Aug. 26, 2021 at 4:53 pm CDT

Reuters — Washington state eradicated its first Asian giant hornet nest of the year by vacuuming out 113 worker hornets and removing bark and decayed wood near the nest, Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) officials said Thursday. The so-called stinging “murder hornets,” the world’s largest hornets, can grow to […]

By Reuters

CBOT weekly outlook: Factors worth watching

Aug. 25, 2021 at 6:03 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Choppiness in Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soyoil, a potential increase in corn prices and an upcoming production report from Statistics Canada are factors on which grains analyst Terry Reilly suggests keeping an eye. Soyoil has been hit by early reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm