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2025 First Quarter Outlooks

Overview of the factors shaping agriculture in 2025.

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Interest Rates

Interest rates costs should be lower in 2025, but not significantly. A best practice in this environment: Have a rate plan, much like a commodity marketing plan.

Beef

Lower market-ready fed cattle supplies in the first quarter of 2025 and the effects of winter weather could help feeders regain market leverage.

Corn

The annual discussion about spring planting acres begins, and Terrain analyst Bree Baatz is more bullish on corn prices, projectingly likely price rallies in 2025.

Soybeans

A rebound in soybean prices in the first part of 2025 will depend solely on weather disruptions to production in Brazil.

Wheat

Range conditions ended the 2024 grazing season on a sour note. But hay stocks and potentially winter wheat grazing should be adequate for the winter season.

Swine

While 2024 finishes with thin margins, prices for barrows and gilts are looking up heading into the first quarter of 2025.

Dairy

Shifting trade policy, future pricing formulas, avian flu: These factors have been gradually winding tension into milk markets like a spring, storing energy that could release in the form of volatility in 2025.

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