Insights and Stories on WASDE

CBOT weekly outlook: Factors come together to boost prices

May. 15, 2019 at 4:33 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — A combination of three factors have contributed to the bounce in prices at the Chicago Board of Trade, according to Rich Feltes of R.J. O’Brien in Chicago. “It’s the convergence of the middle of May, which is a critical time and the confirmation that planting is not only […]

CBOT weekly outlook: Weather, trade talks strong influences

May. 1, 2019 at 4:31 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

CBOT weekly outlook: Markets brace for weather, trade war

Apr. 10, 2019 at 7:46 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Wheat pressured by ample global stockpiles

Apr. 9, 2019 at 6:51 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

USDA to adjust format of monthly supply/demand report

Apr. 9, 2019 at 6:35 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

USDA raises corn stocks projections, lowers soybeans

Apr. 9, 2019 at 6:09 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Updated supply/demand estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture came largely in line with expectations, with larger U.S. and world corn and wheat stocks and slight downward revisions to soybean carryout numbers. Expected U.S. corn ending stocks for the current marketing year were raised by 200 million bushels, […]

By MarketsFarm Team

USDA’s latest WASDE lacks ‘market-turning’ news

Mar. 11, 2019 at 3:48 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — There was nothing in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest world supply and demand estimates (WASDE) report that could have created major moves on commodities markets, according to an analyst. The report, issued Friday, “didn’t give us any kind of a market-turning type news,” said Steve Georgy, president […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

CBOT weekly outlook: Fresh trade news would move markets

Mar. 6, 2019 at 2:45 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Fresh news out of U.S./China trade talks will move the soybean and corn markets in the near future, rather than USDA’s next world agriculture supply and demand estimates (WASDE), according to an analyst following the Chicago Board of Trade. However, a lack of fresh news regarding those trade […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. delays key agriculture reports due to government shutdown

Jan. 4, 2019 at 3:28 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) delayed several major domestic and world crop reports because of the two-week-old partial government shutdown, the agency said on Friday. New release dates for the monthly world agricultural supply and demand estimates (WASDE) report and other data originally scheduled for […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Is China buying U.S. soy? Washington shutdown keeps traders guessing

Dec. 28, 2018 at 11:45 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– Commodity traders are in the dark because of the partial U.S. government shutdown, unable to see daily and weekly reports of agricultural exports to obtain clues as to whether China is following through with promises to buy grain and soy amid the ongoing trade war. Traders […]

By Julie Ingwersen