Corn, wheat, and soybean prices all rose this week, climbing on news of shrinking global supplies. A USDA report on Thursday projected tighter stockpiles for each of the commodities, driven primarily by rising demand. For…
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Border War Escalates with Mexico
This week, President Trump reaffirmed his plan to construct a physical wall along the Mexican border and proposed using a 20% tariff on Mexican imports to pay for it. These statements caused Mexican President Enrique…
Perdue to Head USDA
On Wednesday, then-President-elect Trump named the final member of his Cabinet, selecting former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue as Secretary of Agriculture. If approved by the Senate, Perdue will take lead of the USDA, a government…
Wheat Rises but Beans Fall
Reports of trouble on the Great Plains served as a leavening agent for wheat prices this week, sending the market to new monthly highs. Oklahoma and Kansas are both major wheat-producing states and their hard…