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Why was the latest supply and demand data from USDA so friendly for grain prices? (audio)

Ben Potter, Senior editor

November 11, 2020

1 Min Read
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Each month, USDA releases the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report. Some months, WASDE has very little impact on grain prices.

This month was not one of them.

In fact, after showing lower-than-expected yields, production and ending stocks, corn and soybean prices shot up more than 3% on Tuesday immediately after the report was released.

The report held a lot of other supply and demand data both domestically and overseas that warrants monitoring. We walked through what’s happening in the U.S., South America, China and other locations that could reveal where prices could be headed next.

Listen to the latest Midweek Markets podcast for November 11, 2020:

Farm Futures Market Update · 11 - 11 - 2020 MM PODCAST

 

About the Author(s)

Ben Potter

Senior editor, Farm Futures

Senior Editor Ben Potter brings two decades of professional agricultural communications and journalism experience to Farm Futures. He began working in the industry in the highly specific world of southern row crop production. Since that time, he has expanded his knowledge to cover a broad range of topics relevant to agriculture, including agronomy, machinery, technology, business, marketing, politics and weather. He has won several writing awards from the American Agricultural Editors Association, most recently on two features about drones and farmers who operate distilleries as a side business. Ben is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

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