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Corn and cotton ending stocks up slightly, soybeans decline
USDA lowered the national corn yield for the 2025-26 crop to 186.0 bu. per acre, down from 186.7 in Sept. The soybean yield was lowered 0.5 bu. to 53.0 bu. per acre.
Wheat led strength overnight, breaking out of the recent sideways trend.
Major drone attack on main Russia Black Sea grain port
Chicago Federal Reserve Quarterly Survey Finds Steady Land values versus Q2
Late last night, President Trump signed a congressional funding measure after the House voted to approve it 222-209, ending the record long federal government shutdown.
Soybeans led strength overnight and pushed to a fresh 17-month high, breaking above the recent sideways range.
Drier patterns prevailed in the southern half of the country
Government to provide first update on production, supply and demand since Sept. 12
Oklahoma State’s Derrell Peel says the beef industry needs time — not politics or policy — to solve beef supply and demand realities.
Updates to our soybean balance sheets and future forecasts
Just two weeks after the announced trade truce between China and the United States, Chinese purchases of American soybeans have unexpectedly stagnated, and traders now say they see no new orders coming in.
Wheat saw relative weakness overnight while corn and soybeans did not stray far from unchanged.
U.S. government set to reopen
The USDA is fighting court orders to distribute full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for November despite the looming reopening of the federal government.