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Agriculture Stocks To Consider - April 2nd

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Key Points

  • Deere & Company (DE), Corteva (CTVA) and Cal‑Maine Foods (CALM) are MarketBeat's agriculture stocks to watch, having posted the highest dollar trading volume among agriculture names in recent days.
  • Business focus: Deere manufactures farm, construction and turf equipment; Corteva develops seeds and crop‑protection traits; Cal‑Maine produces, grades and markets shell eggs and specialty egg brands.
  • Investor considerations: Agriculture stocks provide exposure to crop yields, commodity prices and global food demand but are highly sensitive to seasonal cycles, weather, input costs and agricultural policy.
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Deere & Company, Corteva, and Cal-Maine Foods are the three Agriculture stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Agriculture stocks are shares of companies involved in producing, processing, distributing, or supporting agricultural products—examples include farm-equipment makers, seed and fertilizer producers, commodity traders, and food processors. Investors buy them to gain exposure to crop yields, commodity prices, weather patterns, and global food demand, which makes their performance sensitive to seasonal cycles, input costs, and agricultural policy. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Agriculture stocks within the last several days.

Deere & Company (DE)

Deere & Co. engages in the manufacture and distribution of equipment used in agriculture, construction, forestry, and turf care. It operates through the following segments: Agriculture and Turf, Construction and Forestry, and Financial Services. The Agriculture and Turf segment focuses on the distribution and manufacture of a full line of agriculture and turf equipment and related service parts.

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Corteva (CTVA)

Corteva, Inc. operates in the agriculture business. It operates through two segments, Seed and Crop Protection. The Seed segment develops and supplies advanced germplasm and traits that produce optimum yield for farms. It offers trait technologies that enhance resistance to weather, disease, insects, and herbicides used to control weeds, as well as food and nutritional characteristics.

Read Our Latest Research Report on CTVA

Cal-Maine Foods (CALM)

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, produces, grades, packages, markets, and distributes shell eggs. The company offers specialty shell eggs, such as nutritionally enhanced, cage free, organic, free-range, pasture-raised, and brown eggs under the Egg-Land's Best, Land O' Lakes, Farmhouse Eggs, Sunups, Sunny Meadow, and 4Grain brand names.

Read Our Latest Research Report on CALM

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