
South Carolina row-crop farmers report a difficult 2019 due to heat, drought and low commodity prices. Cotton has fallen below break-even levels after China's retaliatory tariffs, and corn pollination was hurt by May heat.
Tariff-driven export losses and weak prices push farmers toward losses, but this is local farm-level commentary with limited direct impact on feed commodity prices.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
After 480 past neutral trade events, Corn moved a median +0.2% over 5 sessions (54% higher; middle half -1.1% to +1.6%), and +0.7% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.