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Hogs Firmed Up for Wednesday
Barchart10 minutes ago
Nearby lean hog prices were 12 to 62 cents higher across the front months, leaving June with a $1.90 weekly gain into the quarterly Hogs and Pigs report. USDA’s National Average Afternoon Base Hog price was $1.37 weaker to $79.26. The CME Lean Hog Index was $83.69 for 3/25, back...
Hogs Firmed Up for Wednesday
Barchart10 minutes ago
Nearby lean hog prices were 12 to 62 cents higher across the front months, leaving June with a $1.90 weekly gain into the quarterly Hogs and Pigs report. USDA’s National Average Afternoon Base Hog price was $1.37 weaker to $79.26. The CME Lean Hog Index was $83.69 for 3/25, back...
Wheat Mixed After Tight Overnight Trade
Barchart10 minutes ago
Wheat prices are fractionally mixed ahead of the USDA data releases. Overnight the May SRW contract kept to a fairly tight 5 cent range, from +2 ¾ to -2 ¼ cents. KC wheat futures ended the day mixed within 1 ¾ cents of UNCH. The soft red winter wheat futures...
Beans Weaker into Report Day
Barchart10 minutes ago
Current soybean prices are 4 to 3 ¾ cents lower ahead of the weekly Export Sales report and the USDA Grain Stocks and Planting Intentions reports scheduled for 11 AM CDT. Soy Oil futures closed more than 70 points weaker with 1.5% losses. Beans were down by 4 ¾ to...
Cotton Firms into USDA Reports
Barchart10 minutes ago
Cotton futures are trading mixed in new crop but 50 to 60 points higher in old crop ahead of the weekly USDA Export Sales report and the Planting Intentions report. Futures were down sharply on Wednesday on some pre-holiday profit taking. The old crop contracts sank more than 2 pennies...
Cash Cattle Prices Down, with Light Activity
Barchart10 minutes ago
Midweek trading was initially lower, extending Tuesday losses, but futures firmed up to end the day in the black. Fat cattle were 20 to 50 cents higher at the Wednesday close, and feeders were up by as much as $1.42. USDA confirmed some light cash trade on Wednesday mostly near...
Corn Mostly UNCH this Morning
Barchart10 minutes ago
Corn futures traded from -¾ to +1 cent overnight, and are back to mostly UNCH +/- ¼ this morning for the weekly Export Sales report. The USDA Grain Stocks and Planting Intentions reports scheduled for 11 AM CDT. Nearby corn prices closed 5 ¾ cents lower on Wednesday, leaving the...
Corn Mostly UNCH this Morning
Barchart10 minutes ago
Corn futures traded from -¾ to +1 cent overnight, and are back to mostly UNCH +/- ¼ this morning for the weekly Export Sales report. The USDA Grain Stocks and Planting Intentions reports scheduled for 11 AM CDT. Nearby corn prices closed 5 ¾ cents lower on Wednesday, leaving the...
Chart of the Day: Air Lease - Leases Both Boeing and Airbus
Barchart25 minutes ago
The Chart of the Day belongs to the airplane leasing company Air Lease (AL) I found the stock by using Barchart's powerful screening functions to find stocks with the highest technical buy signals, highest Weighted Alpha, superior current momentum and having a Trend Seeker buy signal then used the Flipchart...
Better understanding antibiotic use in food-producing animals
Brownfield Ag News41 minutes ago
When a restaurant or a food company switches to a “no antibiotics ever” policy for food-producing animals, it can lead to some serious misconceptions. Tom Super with the National Chicken Council says one of those is that if a product doesn’t come with that label, there could be antibiotic residue...