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Oct 23, 2026
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Iowa lawmakers led by Senator Chuck Grassley urge Commerce Secretary Lutnick and USTR Greer to shield U.S. pork from retaliatory Mexican anti-dumping duties, warning that disruptions to the $2.85 billion export market would crush hog margins and domestic feed ingredient demand.
A new CoBank report reveals aggressive farmer selling has shifted roughly 50% of the crop into elevator ownership, where high interest rates and flat futures carry are driving carrying costs to record levels and forcing merchandisers to discount prompt harvest shipments to domestic feed mills.
Oct 22, 2026
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USDA reports September commercial red meat production dropped 4% to 4.32 billion pounds as cattle and hog slaughter contracted, while heavier market weights to 1,447 pounds in cattle and 287 pounds in hogs extended feedlot finishing rations and sustained high-energy feed grain demand.
An aggressive outbreak of invasive pasture mealybugs across Florida and Louisiana threatens regional sugarcane yields and cane molasses production, triggering ingredient shortages and ration recalibrations for cattle supplement manufacturers and commercial feed mills.
USDA weekly export sales surge to 4.37 million metric tons as China books 2.18M MT of soybeans and Mexico drives corn commitments to 1.53M MT, tightening domestic cash grain balance sheets.
Oct 21, 2026
Weekly U.S. fuel ethanol production surged by 29,000 barrels per day to reach 1.094 million bpd for the week ending October 16, 2026, accelerating commercial corn grind past 16.1 million bushels daily and expanding distillers grains supplies across Midwest feed mills.
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