Insights and Stories on USDA

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

Sep. 8, 2021 at 6:55 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell on Wednesday, dragged lower by a firmer dollar that threatened to make U.S. supplies less competitive on the export market, traders said. Corn futures steadied after sinking to their lowest in two months early in the day, with bearish harvest expectations limiting […]

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

By Adam Peleshaty

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

Aug. 27, 2021 at 2:50 pm CDT

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

U.S. grains: Corn climbs on weaker crop conditions

Aug. 25, 2021 at 5:30 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago corn futures climbed on Wednesday for a second day after the U.S. Department of Agriculture cut crop ratings on Monday afternoon, though beneficial rainfall across parts of the upper U.S. Midwest limited gains. Soybeans ended higher after the market made its biggest daily gain since […]

By Christopher Walljasper

U.S. grains: Soybeans rally as crop conditions drop, soyoil prices rise

Aug. 24, 2021 at 6:54 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures rallied on Tuesday on eroding Midwest crop conditions and improving export demand, and as soyoil prices rose another three per cent amid further gains in crude oil markets. Corn futures also climbed on deteriorating crop conditions across the heart of the farm belt. […]

By Karl Plume