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Live cattle futures were $1.20 to $1.70 higher on Friday, as October took the weekly gain to $3.60. Preliminary open interest was up 4,613 contracts on Friday. Cash trade settled in last week at $240 in the South, with Northern sales of $237-238. The Friday morning Fed Cattle Exchange online...

Lean Hog Futures settled the Friday session with contracts up 50 cents to down a dime in the front months. October was up another 85 cents last week. USDA’s national base hog report from Friday afternoon was reported at $103.61, down $1.99 from the day prior. The CME Lean Hog...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture under President Donald Trump is ending the annual survey on hunger, known as the Household Food Security Report, calling it “overly politicized.” This comes just months after the administration cut food stamp benefits for millions of low-income Americans.

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Illinois produced 485.1 million pounds of pumpkins in 2024, per USDA data.

Soybeans failed to see much buying following the phone call between President Trump and xi of China this morning, as futures held the 10 to 12 cent losses into the close. November lost 20 3/4 cents this week. The cmdtyView national average Cash Bean price was down 11 3/4 cents...

Live cattle futures rallied another $1.20 to $1.70 on Friday, as October took the weekly gain to $3.60. Cash trade settled in this week at $240 in the South, with Northern sales of $237-238. The Friday morning Fed Cattle Exchange online auction from Central Stockyards saw $239-241 BidTheGrid™ sales on...

Lean Hog Futures closed the Friday session with contracts up 50 cents to down a dime in the front months. October was up another 85 cents this week. USDA’s national base hog report from Friday afternoon was reported at $103.61, down $1.99 from the day prior. The CME Lean Hog...

Cotton futures closed Friday with losses of 25 to 61 points in the front months, as December was down 54 points this week. The outside markets were pressure factors, with the US dollar index up another $0.334 on the day to $97.305 and crude oil futures $0.93 lower. The weekly...

Corn futures rounded out Friday trade with contracts mixed within a penny of unchanged. December was still weaker this week, dropping 6 cents from last Friday. The CmdtyView national average Cash Corn price was up ¼ cent at $3.80 1/2. The USDA reported another private export sale of 206,460 MT...

A judge has temporarily stopped the federal government from collecting personal information about residents in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, in 21 states and Washington, D