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CBOT Weekly: USDA plantings, stocks reports out March 31

Corn should be the winner in both reports

Reading Time: 2 minutes March 31 will be a busy day in the commodities market with the United States Department of Agriculture scheduled to release two major reports. At 11 am CDT on that Monday, the USDA will issue its grain stocks as of March 1 report along with its prospective plantings estimates for this spring.













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Proposed U.S. port fees on China-built ships choking coal, agriculture exports

U.S. agriculture exports face uncertainty due to proposed shipping fees, traders say

Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to revive U.S. shipbuilding using massive fees on China-linked ship visits to American ports is causing U.S. coal inventories to swell and stoking uncertainty in the embattled agriculture market, as exporters struggle to find ships to send goods abroad.