USDA WASDE Report: Neutral to Bearish Long Term.

May 09, 2014

The USDA released their important May 9 World Agriculture Supply And Demand Estimates report today.

Moe Agostino, Senior Commodity Marketing Strategist for Farms.com Risk Management will provide his analysis on this report later on today.

Here are some thoughts and observations:

Corn - Slightly bullish old crop and bearish new crop with higher yields projected.

Soybeans - Neutral as projections close to market expectations.

Wheat - Bearish with lower yield prospects supporting prices in fall.

More to come later as we review the numbers.

The full report can be found on the following link.

http://www.usda.gov/oce/commodity/wasde/latest.pdf

Full coverage of these USDA reports will follow.

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