Tyson Foods is closing its Joslin, Illinois, beef plant and Eagle
Mountain, Utah, facility, displacing more than 2,500 workers amid historic U.S.
cattle herd shortages. Processing will shift to Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas
plants, as the beef cow herd hits its lowest inventory since 1951.
1^Tyson Closes Beef Plants
2026 DTN Digital Yield Tour estimates Nebraska corn at 176.3 bushels per
acre (bpa) and soybeans at 55.9 bpa.
F2026 Digital Yield Tour - Nebraska
Workforce reductions and hiring restrictions at USDA's Farm Service Agency
and Natural Resources Conservation Service are leaving local offices
understaffed, reducing services and stretching remaining employees thin.
BInside a USDA Staff Shortage
The bullish corn balance sheet presented by USDA on Wednesday could end up
being far more interesting before the marketing year is over.
=^Canada Markets
In late July, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern filed more than 400 pages
of new material with the Surface Transportation Board responding to the STB's
order requesting supplemental information about their proposed merger
transaction.
BCash Market Moves
