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USDA increased Brazil's corn crop but lowered both corn and soybean production in Argentina.

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Starting to see stories/reports that nations are banding together to try and provide safe passage thru the Strait of Hormuz. No guarantees it will work but if it does, it could limit the damage to fertilizer and could have corrections coming. Timing is everything.

#BREAKING: The US House has just voted to TERMINATE President Trump’s tariff’s on Canada, 219-211 🇨🇦🇺🇸

USDA pushes Brazil's 2025/26 soybean harvest to 180 million metric tons. No changes to corn or to Argentina's crops.

U.S. corn harvested area was raised significantly from September, pushing production over 17 billion bushels. That's up 4.5 million acres since the June acreage survey, which is completely unprecedented.

Last run of the dryer for the 2025 year. Thank you to our farm community and our dedicated team for another great year. 🎄

Hardly a breeze nearly Steaming to the heavens, snow melting for harvest to resume. 🌽

China buys at least 14 cargoes of US soybeans for Dec-Jan shipment, traders say 🇺🇸🌱⛴️🇨🇳 CHICAGO, Nov 17 (Reuters) - China's state-owned grain trader COFCO bought at least 14 cargoes of U.S. soybeans on Monday, or at least 840,000 metric tons, for shipment in December and January, two traders with knowledge of the deals told Reuters. Eight of the vessels were for shipment in December and January from U.S. Gulf Coast terminals, while the rest were for shipment in January from Pacific Northwest ports, one trader said. A second trader estimated around 75% of the sales were for Gulf shipment, with the remainder from the PNW. The sales total may ultimately be larger if more deals are finalized, the traders said. China has largely shunned U.S. soybeans this season due to a heated trade war with Washington, sourcing supplies from export rivals Brazil and Argentina instead. Monday's U.S. soy purchases were China's largest since a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea last month. The White House said China had agreed to buy 12 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans this year, but only a small volume of sales had occurred before Monday. Trump on Friday said sales would be on track by the spring. U.S. soybean futures Sv1 on the Chicago Board of Trade rallied nearly 3% on Monday to a 17-month high on the trade optimism. Cash premiums for soybeans delivered to Gulf Coast and PNW terminals in the coming months and loaded for export jumped by 10 cents a bushel or more, traders said. (Reporting by Karl Plume in Chicago; Editing by Chris Reese and Bill Berkrot)

US corn and soybean yields come down from September, corn by less than expected.

The story at the world level is the big increase in wheat stocks (if you're my subscriber, you read about this yesterday). Bigger production across many major wheat exporters.

Every year, soldiers and civilians take the sand from Omaha Beach and rub it onto the gravestones of American soldiers to bring the names forward. They do this for all 9,386 American soldiers buried there.

Great night before another rain day keep it rolling #ontag 🌽🌽

Bit of sun and wind & harvest rolls on #ontag #harvest25 #gojays

Great first week of corn behind us, quality has been excellent and the crop is loving this fall weather 🌽☀️

A Happy Thanksgiving to all! we are thankful for our amazing agriculture community and another bountiful harvest 🌽🫛🌾

Soybean moistures ranging from 14.6-16.0% late afternoon All locations open to serve you this weekend #ontag #harvest25

🇺🇸U.S. corn and soybean harvest is in the early stages and moving a hair slower than a year ago. Spring wheat harvest is just about finished, but winter wheat planting is going slower than expected.

Bean Harvest underway last couple days have blessed us with some clean bright early day IPs 🫛 keep the good weather coming #ontag

USDA reduced U.S. corn yield but hiked planted area by another 1.4M acres, so production went up. Bean plantings were up slightly as well.