agriculureandfarming

It was a mostly quiet day in the US farm markets yesterday. Indeed, despite Planting Progress report on Monday showed continuing planting delays in corn, forecasts predict clear skies during this weekend and through the next week, which will likely help boost planting progress. Meantime, potential corn planting delays led more operators to believe that even more […]

US farm markets, awaited the planting progress report yesterday, hoping USDA would to show some decent progress despite fieldwork delays due to rain in some areas.  That put corn prices down, sinking they by 1.23% lower. Soybean oil continued to fade after the historic runup through April, ending the session 4.86% in the red.  That

US farm markets, continued to be very volatile past week!  Corn market on Friday, ended with prices near to unchange with May contract the strongest on the day, as gained 0.28%.  Corn futures rallied above $8 to close above that mark on a weekly basis for the first time since August 2012, and approaching so

US farm markets, were mixed but mostly weaker yesterday. While rainy weather across the Corn Belt could hand out additional corn planting delays this spring, this could boost soybean acres this season, and prices shifted moderately higher and lower respectively. Corn prices, indeed, tried to inch a bit closer to life-of-contract highs, but ended just