Welcome

Welcome

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Rumors on US Farmer Aid Plan Continue to Swirl

Commodity markets gyrated Tuesday, reacting to news reports and USDA statements that USDA was working on a farmer-aid plan for soybeans, corn and wheat.
Bloomberg reported USDA was considering payments of $2 per bushel for soybeans, 63 cents for wheat and 4 cents for corn.
The report said that USDA was considering paying the amounts based on actual planted acres for 2019 and their historic yield of crops per acre.

However, USDA late-Tuesday sent out a statement that offered their views on that reporting: "Details on the new farming support program will be forthcoming shortly, but we want to be clear that the program is being designed to avoid skewing planting decisions one way or another. Farmers should continue to make their planting and production decisions with the current market signals in mind, rather than some expectation of what a farming support program might or might not look like based on inaccurate media stories."