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Morning Commentary
Start your day with overnight market activity, grain trends, futures movement, weather impacts, and early market outlook updates.
Afternoon Commentary
Stay informed on midday market movement, closing trends, and developing agriculture market conditions throughout the trading day.
National Agriculture News
- Wheat solidly higher, watching global grain movement
- Cattle, hog futures finish the week lower
- Grain groups call for Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger to be rejected
- Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: August 14, 2026
- Nonfat dry milk, dry whey higher as CME dairy markets trade mixed
- SoyFoam on display during AgroExpo
- Glisan: Parts of Iowa very wet, other parts very dry
- New technology tracks soybean diseases before symptoms appear
- Food buyers, farmers partner for regenerative agriculture adoption in pears
- Sugar gains consumer favor as cheap global imports undercut U.S. farmers
- Worries over USDA staff reductions
- Wisconsin State Fair’s 175-year history rooted in agriculture and farm families
Livestock News
- Cotton jassid: the invasive pest shocking U.S. cotton
- American-made ag drones are catching up — fast
- Corn prices pop in Friday’s session
- USDA Exports: China buys soybeans, Aug. 14, 2026
- That August USDA report? Forget you ever saw it
- USDA confirms Glen Smith as rural development chief
- Tyson shuts down Illinois beef plant without warning
- Can your farming heir buy out their siblings?
- September 1986’s unprecedented storms crushed crop hopes
- Will more farmland go on auction block this fall?
- Put down the phone, pick up your life
- Don’t wait for red — why I pick my tomatoes early