Month: August 2025

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were sharply higher, supported by sharply higher boxed beef during the session ahead of widespread direct business.  October live cattle closed $2.55 higher at $229.65 and [Read More…]

Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling. The trade’s expecting a big crop and there are a lot of questions about export demand. On the supply side of the equation, near-term development conditions remain [Read More…]

An ag economist with University of Missouri Extension says there might not be as many prevent plant acres as initially expected in the United States. A wet spring caused planting delays and some prevent plant [Read More…]

A farmer in southeast Indiana says he’s concerned about root development after excessive moisture this spring. Mike Koehne raises food-grade corn and soybeans and tells Brownfield.. “Mother Nature hasn’t been very good to us, but [Read More…]

A plant pathologist with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln says mid-summer rains have helped improve variable crop conditions.   Dylan Mangel tells Brownfield, “It didn’t look great for quite awhile around the Fourth of July or [Read More…]

A member of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Trade is encouraged by actions taken by the Trump administration to improve U.S export business.  Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach says there’s been a lot of movement on [Read More…]

Commentary. Last year about this time, I wrote a column of which the opening line read: “Just keeping things in perspective…” On August 19, 2024, the number that was the focus of my writing was [Read More…]