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The Washington Post reported yesterday a person was infected with the bird flu in Texas who had contact with infected dairy cattle. This is the first bird flu case since 2022. The cattle futures dropped like a rock following the release of the headline, but did not settle limit down.
The Central US from the Gulf into Canada is expected to receive above normal rainfall over the next 14 days. Rain makes grain, especially corn. The weather forecast for rain is why corn was down so hard yesterday despite friendly numbers from USDA on Thursday. Here are the rainfall totals (according to WeatherBug) for the areas of the Midwest which we track the rain days every day: