Entries for April 2018
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11 Apr 2018
USDA Daily Market Rates 04/11 06:48 HDR1010500000080411180700DAILY MARKET RATES(GRAIN/MISC COMMODITIES) Form Approved OMB No. 0560-XXXX Effective: April 11, 2018 ***NOTE CHANGES TO DIFFERENTIAL INFORMATION EFFECTIVE 04/11/18**** The following Market Rates are established to aid in the development of the Posted County Prices (PCPs) which are used by...
11 Apr 2018
DTN Early Word Grains 04/11 05:57 The Same, Just Different May corn was fractionally higher, May soybeans were 7 cents higher, and July Kansas City (HRW) wheat was 4 cents lower. By Darin Newsom DTN Senior Analyst 6:00 a.m. CME Globex: May corn was fractionally higher, May soybeans were 7 cents higher, and July Kansas City (HRW) wheat was 4 cents l...
11 Apr 2018
DTN Early Word Opening Livestock 04/11 05:53 Live and Feeder Futures Are Likely to Open Moderately Lower The cattle complex seems set to open moderately lower, checked by struggling beef demand and cash uncertainty. Look for lean futures to begin on a mixed basis in slow and cautious volume. By John Harrington DTN Analyst Cattle: Steady-$2 LR Futur...
10 Apr 2018
DTN Closing Livestock Comment 04/10 16:39 Meat Futures Settle With Mixed Prices After a lackluster round of trading, cattle futures settled narrowly mixed with traders waiting to get a better feel of near -term fundamentals. Lean hog contracts also closed on both sides of unchanged with nearbys generally gaining on deferreds. By John Harrington DTN...
10 Apr 2018
(Washington, D.C., April 10, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today applauded President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order (EO), titled “Reducing Poverty in America by Promoting Opportunity and Economic Mobility,” which calls for lifting American citizens from welfare to work, from dependence to independence, and from poverty to pr...