Weekly corn & soybean crop ratings unchanged
As of Sep. 26, U.S. corn was rated 59 percent good to excellent and 15 percent poor to very poor, unchanged from the week [...]
Problems at port slow juice imports
Stocks of non-orange juice concentrates at the end of August were just 276.4 million pounds, nearly unchanged from July and the lowest level for [...]
Culling limits milk supply growth
Four months into this contraction phase for output, the U.S. dairy herd has fallen by nearly 30,000 head, with the bulk of the reductions [...]
Corn futures remain in consolidated trading pattern
Futures activity Dec-21 corn futures closed last week a bit higher at just under $5.27 per bushel. Futures are inverted for the second half [...]
Sugar index leads gains in August rebound of Food Price Index
Adjusted for inflation, FAO’s Food Price Index (FPI) rebounded strongly in August after slight declines in June and July. These two down months, however, [...]
Dalian corn futures near one-year low, & weather updates
Ahead of China’s mid-autumn festival holiday, continuous nearby Dalian corn futures settled at an 11-month low of $9.3400 per bushel before rebounding to almost [...]
August soybean crush beat expectations
NOPA members crushed 158.8 million bushels of soybeans last month, higher than estimates ahead of today’s report by about 4.5 million bushels. NOPA's cumulative [...]
Rising container freight rates curdles U.S. milk exports
An increasingly common complaint of shippers lately has been availability and pricing for export containers. Many lanes, in particular those to the Far East, [...]