Karen Braun

The United States, the world’s top corn supplier, is set to export a record volume of corn in the waning 2024-25 marketing year, slightly edging out 2020-21’s high.

The U.S. corn yield appears on pace to break its six-year streak of undershooting trendline expectations, and some analyst predictions have gotten quite lofty.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture next Monday will publish one of its most important surveys of the year, which also happens to be among the more difficult to forecast.

Speculators have held unusually bullish views in U.S. cattle futures since late last year, which was perfect timing as the domestic herd hit a 74-year low at the beginning of 2025.

Another month, another fresh set of numbers.

Health conditions across the U.S. Crop Watch corn and soybean fields began this season at multi-year lows. Recent weather has lent a bump to the corn ratings, though soybean scores remain just so-so overall.

Second-worst ever. That’s how health conditions for the 2025 U.S. winter wheat crop were described last autumn.

Speculators dug deeper into bear territory last week across U.S. grain and oilseed futures, and with this time of year known to feature plenty of uncertainties, investors must keep their eyes glued on upcoming weather forecasts for the U.S. Corn Belt.

If anything can wreck the party for U.S. corn exporters, it’s Brazil.

Although not all fields have emerged, U.S. Crop Watch soybean conditions are starting out on their worst note in at least five years, similar to the corn ratings a week ago.