USAG News and Press, United States Agriculture Index Fund ETV From 03/29/19

April starts on Monday, and that means the winter of 2018/2019 has come to an end. While there is always the chance of one of those nasty April snowstorms, it will not be long before the warm winds of spring give way to hot summer days. Grains are the crops that feed the world, and the Unite...

The price of coffee has gone nowhere but lower since reaching a high at $1.76 per pound in 2016. After falling to the lowest level in years at 92 cents per pound in September 2018, the price rebounded to $1.2550 in just one month. However, since then, the bearish price action returned to the 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 ...

Those who read my articles on Seeking Alpha know that I often call wheat the most political commodity in the world. While the majority of market participants would likely assign that title to the international crude oil market because more than half the world's reserves are located in the most...

On Friday, March 8, the USDA released its second World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report of 2019. The January report never materialized because of the month-long government shutdown, but in the aftermath of the February report, the prices of grains moved lower while cotton posted...

By Bluford Putnam Flooding by the Mississippi River, a key artery for grain shipments to U.S. Gulf export points, has slowed barge traffic and could spike market volatility. Editor’s Note: The summary bullets for this article were chosen by Seeking Alpha Read mo...

On Friday, March 8 the US Department of Agriculture will release its second World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report of 2019. The January report fell victim to the government shutdown which meant that many agricultural producers were making decisions in the dark until the agency r...

The January Prices Received Index for agricultural production is 84.9% of its 2011 base, down 4.5% from the Dec. 2018 index and 3.6% from the Jan. 2018 index More news on: Invesco DB Agriculture ETF, ELEMENTS Rogers International Commodity Agriculture ETN, DB Agriculture Double Long...

When someone asks me which commodity is the most sensitive to global political trends, my answer often comes as a surprise. Many market participants would answer that crude oil is highly political because more than half of the world's reserves of the energy commodity reside in the most turbule...

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...