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At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle finished the day lower on technical selling. June live cattle closed $.72 lower at $252.07 and August live cattle closed $.32 lower at $246.15. August feeder cattle closed $2.92 lower at $358 and September feeder cattle closed $2.75 lower at $355.22. There was another light round The post Cattle futures lower heading into Friday appeared first on Brownfield Ag News.
Soybeans were sharply lower on fund and technical selling. While ag trade was discussed with China, including soybeans, nothing concrete has been reported from the meeting as of yet. For now, China will likely continue to buy primarily from Brazil due to the price advantage. CONAB raised its production guess for Brazil another 0.5% to The post Soybeans drop on lack of China details, CONAB update appeared first on Brownfield Ag News.
The CEO of The Fertilizer Institute says disruptions caused by the conflict in the Middle East continue to affect global markets. In a Senate Ag Committee hearing on Wednesday, Corey Rosenbusch told attendees tighter global supplies are resulting in higher prices. “The closure of the Strait of Hormuz impacted about 34% of globally traded The post Middle East conflict continues squeezing global fertilizer production appeared first on Brownfield Ag News.
An agronomist encourages corn and soybean growers to monitor stands as crops emerge. Ryan Peterson with WinField United says even emergence is extremely critical. “Let’s say you have two corn plants next to each other, and one of those corn plants emerges about two leaves later. Basically, that late-emerging corn plant is now a weed, The post Uneven emergence could cost farmers yield potential appeared first on Brownfield Ag News.