CROP News and Press, IQ Global Agribusiness Small Cap ETF From 06/18/19

Tariffs and subsidies distort commodity prices, and commodities are global assets. In a totally free market, goods would flow around the world from the lowest priced producers to the consumers willing to pay the most. That efficient economic model is great in theory, but in practice, governmen...

On Tuesday, June 11, at noon EST, the US Department of Agriculture released its June World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. The USDA issues the report each month of the year, but the June report comes at a critical time as the planting season is moving into the growing season t...

The peak season of demand for animal proteins in the United States started on the Memorial Day weekend at the end of May. In June, July, and August, the aroma of beef, chicken, and pork will fill the summer air as the barbecue is a part of being an American. As carnivores from coast to coast...

The United States is the world's leading producer and exporter of corn. The agricultural commodity has a dual role as it is a product that feeds people all over the globe. In the US, the abundance of corn each year makes it the primary input in the production of ethanol, a biofuel. Decades ago...

The Trump administration is planning on providing about $15B in aid to help U.S. farmers whose products may be targeted by the newly unveiled Chinese tariffs. More news on: iPath Series B Bloomberg Coffee Subindex Total Return ETN, Invesco DB Agriculture ETF, Teucrium Corn ETF, Commoditi...

On Friday, May 10, at noon EST the US Department of Agriculture released its May World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates Report on a day where the market's attention was elsewhere. An environment where the US slapped new tariffs on China moved the WASDE report to the end of the line whe...

It is that time of the month again. If the prices of grains and most other agricultural commodities limped into the April WASDE report, they are crawling into the USDA's May release which is coming on May 10 at noon EST. There have been no new earth-shattering developments on trade between the...

Each month the US Department of Agriculture releases the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report which is the gold-standard for fundamental research for many of the products that feed the world. The April report comes at a time when farmers are beginning the process of planting c...

The spring season is just around the corner and futures markets are always looking ahead. The 2019 grilling season will commence during the Memorial Day weekend in late May, but it will not be long before hungry grillers are pulling their barbecues out of storage all over the United States to ...

This week, the world waited while trade negotiators from China and the United States huddled in Beijing for high-level talks over the ongoing trade dispute between the two countries. In 2018, the US under President Donald Trump put tariffs on many Chinese exports to the US and China retaliated...