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Crop Market Report for Corn, Soybeans, Rice, and Cotton: May, 2025

The 2025/26 U.S. corn outlook is for record supplies and total use, and higher ending stocks. The corn crop is projected at 15.8 billion bushels, up 6 percent from a year ago on increases to both area and yield. Planted area of 95.3 million acres if realized would be the highest in over a decade. The yield projection of 181.0 bushels per acre is based on a weather-adjusted trend assuming normal planting progress and summer growing season weather.

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Seesaw Cotton Pricing Continues

The year 1965 gave us the song “Catch Us if You Can.” Reference to those lyrics fits the scenario of a market continuing higher and higher. Maybe just the mention of it will seed a price jump in the market.

Yet, for now, we must be content with a continuation of a market just backing and filling, headed nowhere and going nowhere.

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Hey, Cotton Has A Kelce Connection, Too!

Let’s tip a cap to Jason Kelce.  

Yes, that Jason Kelce. All-Pro center and Super Bowl champion with the Philadelphia Eagles. Big brother to Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce…and thus, a personal friend of Taylor Swift. Now retired from his playing days, he’s become his own corporation of sorts, including broadcasting, podcasting, social media, and his own YouTube channel…not to mention endorsements.

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NCC Chairman Johnson Ready For The Challenges

Patrick Johnson is well aware of what he’s getting into this year as the newly elected chairman of the National Cotton Council (NCC).  

He’s been handed a plate overloaded with farm policy and political issues (including a screaming need for a new farm bill), continued economic distress at the farm level, and market challenges from foreign competitors, export customers, and manmade fibers — just to name a few.  

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Agricultural Policy and Market Situation Newsletter: April 2025

Soybean contracts jumped 20 cents in midday trading on Wednesday, April 9th, joining other commodities in a sharp rebound, after President Donald Trump took to social media to again raise tariffs on the biggest buyer of U.S. soybeans- China. New Chinese tariffs (125%), set Wednesday, April 9th, more than double the cost for Chinese buyers to import U.S. soybeans, but that didn't stop soy-bean futures from climbing higher. 

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