Nearly ripe wheat heads under a late summer day with a few clouds in an otherwise blue sky.

USDA’s latest WASDE report bearish for wheat

The World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates report now projects a new production record of 829 million tonnes

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released its long-awaited November crop production and World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimate reports.


A worker fills a truck with soybeans in the city of Sorriso, Mato Grosso state, Brazil.

Critics question Brazil’s biofuel expansion plan

Country is pushing the world to quadruple sustainable fuel use by 2035, but scientists warn of land, food trade-offs

“When land grows fuel instead of food, someone else must clear more land, or eat less,” said Timothy Searchinger, senior research scholar at Princeton University.


Cattle at a feedlot near North Platte, Nebraska. (AndrewLinscott/iStock/Getty Images)

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end limit down

Chicago live and feeder cattle futures fell by their limits on Monday following news of a Nebraska processing plant closure. All live cattle contracts fell by 7.250 cents. Most-traded June contracts settled at 201.725 cents a pound while February futures closed at 207.525 cents. Feeder cattle contracts dropped by their 9.250-cent limit. Most-traded March futures […] Read more


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AAFC makes few changes to November S/D report

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada made only a handful of alterations for its November report on principal field crops. The only changes AAFC made were with all wheat and durum exports plus domestic use for all wheat and corn in the estimates released on Nov. 24. The report had been initially scheduled for Nov. 19, but AAFC said they chose to delay it until after the United States Department of Agriculture issued its November supply and demand estimates following the U.S. government shutdown.