Mark Weinraub, a 27-year career financial journalist, now covers banking and finance for Crain’s. Weinraub, a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill…
After a dry spring threatened to wither the U.S. corn crop in the fields, farmers are harvesting what will likely be the country's third-largest crop ever. A bumper harvest will strain storage capacity and hold down prices of the world's most traded commodity crop. This will benefit customers who will pay less for corn used to feed livestock, dairy cows and egg-laying chickens or to make ethanol biofuel.
U.S. corn and soybean
harvests will be smaller than previously forecast, with hot and
dry weather during critical parts of the growing season dragging
on yields, the government said on Thursday. . -October 12, 2023 at 12:05 pm EDT
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cattle futures rose on Thursday as technical buyers stepped into
the market after prices weakened earlier in the session. Traders said that the massive. -October 12, 2023 at 03:28 pm EDT
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lean hog futures rose on Friday, extending a rally that was
sparked by a strong export sales report a day earlier, traders
said. A round of short covering was. -October 06, 2023 at 03:10 pm EDT
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