Reading Time: < 1 minute The United States sold at least 332,000 tonnes of soybeans to China during the government shutdown, with more business to “unknown destinations” also likely headed to the country, according to a cache of daily sales data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Nov. 14.
U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China
U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA
Reading Time: < 1 minute Soybean and corn yields in the United States were revised downward from earlier estimates in updated supply/demand tables from the United States Department of Agriculture released Nov. 14.
The U.S. corn crop could be the biggest ever. That’s terrible news for America’s farmers.
Reading Time: 6 minutes The USDA predicts a record corn crop for U.S. farmers, who question the agency’s accuracy amidst high debt and low crop prices.
Farmers, traders ‘flying blind’ as U.S. shutdown blocks key crop data
Reading Time: 4 minutes U.S. data vital to global grain and soybean trading has gone dark during the country’s federal government shutdown, leaving commodity traders and farmers without crop production estimates, export sales data and market reports during the peak of the autumn harvest.
U.S. grains: Soybeans gain on lackluster harvest sales, lower yield outlook
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures rose for a second straight day on Wednesday on expectations that U.S. harvest yields will be lower than the latest government forecast and on limited sales by farmers awaiting news from U.S.-China trade talks and details of government aid. Corn followed soybeans higher as an expected yield forecast […] Read more
China’s canola, soybeans imports to drop one million tonnes each
Reading Time: 2 minutes China is expected to import one million tonnes less of canola in 2025/26 than in the previous marketing year, the United States Department of Agriculture attaché in Beijing projected. China was projected to acquire 3.10 million tonnes of canola this year versus 4.10 million in 2024/25.
U.S. criticizes Mexico’s handling of screwworm near border
Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Thursday said Mexico has not adequately enacted protocols to curb the spread of New World screwworm.
USDA plan to rebuild beef herd will not include producer payments, says farm secretary
Reading Time: < 1 minute The U.S. Department of Agriculture is developing a plan to revitalize the decimated U.S. beef herd, but will not offer payments to producers, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Thursday.
More corn, less wheat to be grown in Mexico says USDA attaché
Reading Time: 2 minutes Corn production in Mexico is to improve to 25 million tonnes in 2025/26, while the country’s wheat crop is to recede a little, said the United States Department of Agriculture attaché in Mexico City.
USDA tweaks to soybeans, corn numbers
Reading Time: 2 minutes The United States Department of Agriculture is still forecasting a record-large corn crop in 2025/26 despite lowering its average yield projection in the latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates released Sept. 12
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