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Farmers across the Midwest have boosted crop sales as corn and soybean futures spiked after the U.S. Department of Agriculture slashed its 2024 harvest estimates on Friday, grain dealers in Iowa ...
The following is a list of futures contracts on physically traded commodities. Agricultural. Grains, food and fiber ... Corn DCE: XDCE: 10 metric tons c Oats CBOT ...
October 23, 2024 at 11:53 AM. ... Yet corn futures prices are signaling they should hold the grain for a few months, if possible. On the Chicago Board of Trade, benchmark December corn futures ...
The steepest market downturn in a decade in 2023 has extended into 2024, hurting the U.S. rural economy. ... Corn futures prices that approached $6.30 a bushel in June have since tumbled to $4.10 ...
A farmer raising corn can sell a futures contract on his corn, which will not be harvested for several months, and gets a guarantee of the price he will be paid when he delivers; a breakfast cereal producer buys the contract and gets a guarantee that the price will not go up when it is delivered.
The Futures: The Rise of the Speculator and the Origins of the World's Biggest Markets. Basic Books. Erika Olson (2011). Zero-Sum Game: The Rise of the World's Largest Derivatives Exchange. John Wiley & Sons. Leg the Spread: A Woman's Adventures Inside the Trillion-Dollar Boys' Club of Commodities Trading by Cari Lynn (Random House/Broadway Books)
Futures contracts for agricultural commodities have been traded in the U.S. for more than 150 years and have been under federal regulation since the 1920s. [7] The Grain Futures Act of 1922 set the basic authority and was changed by the Commodity Exchange Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.).
Ag lender CoBank projected last week that U.S. farmers would plant 94.55 million acres of corn in 2025, up about 4% from 2024, while soybean plantings would fall to 84.0 million acres, down 3.6% ...