Soybean prices got a lift this week on renewed hopes for a trade deal with China and tighter supply outlooks from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The monthly USDA report released Thursday morning projected that…
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Hog Wild Rally
Hog prices exploded this week, moving the exchange-maximum “limit up” on Thursday and Friday. Prices leapt after news broke of a large Chinese purchase of U.S. pork. China’s ongoing battle with the African Swine Fever…
Corn Prices in the Dirt
Corn tumbled again this week to as better crop conditions and warmer weather reduced threats to this year’s crop. Meanwhile, U.S. ethanol production is near a six-month low and stockpiles of the fuel continue to…
Dorian Spares Florida Oranges
Hurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamas and brought high winds, tornadoes, and dangerous flooding along much of the Atlantic Coast of the United States, but the storm largely spared inland Florida, leavings its orange groves intact….