Morning Update

Mixed grain trade overnight. This morning’s grain trade is softer after soybeans had seen overnight follow-through buying, with meal pushing to shy of the 440/ton price range before retreating in the early morning hours. US export demand and strong physical disappearance will continue into early spring, as Argentina is not exporting meal anymore until next…

Morning Update

The start of Turn-around Tuesday has beans firming. Wheat and corn are finding selling pressure overnight, while soybeans find stability after a 50% correction of last week’s gains. Crop Progress showed that the US corn harvest is 59% complete and the soybean harvest 76% complete. Brazil’s planting progress shows 60% planted in Matto Grosso versus…

Morning Update

Soybeans and corn continue to drift from last week’s gains. Corn and soybean prices are softer this morning, with soybeans leading the larger decline after being the biggest gainer last week. Argentine’s presidential election featured a win for the Peronist party, with their economic minister Sergio Masa capturing 36.6% of the vote and the right-wing…

Morning Update

Soybeans drift from the 200-day MA, but corn holds firm. This morning, grains are mixed with wheat, finding follow-through buying, with corn firm, while soybeans drift slightly from the 200-day MA. The focus this weekend for soybeans, besides the ongoing Middle East tensions and concerns that a broader area of the Middle East could be…

Sell Nov Bean

Spec trade: Day order, sell a Nov bean at 1315.4 with the 1324 stop. Take profits at 1302. Soybeans should initially struggle to advance beyond the confluence of the 100-day and 200-day MA currently at 1318, and find a correction. 

Morning Update

Grain pricing overnight produced a mixed result. Grain prices are coming in mixed this morning, with soybeans challenging the confluence of the 100-day and 200-day moving averages in the 1318-1320 range. Active bookings of soybean meal with Argentina are now out of the market until April, with US sourcing as the primary interest. US corn…

Morning Update

Grain prices universally moved higher overnight. Grain prices moved higher overnight, led by rising energy values and improving interior corn, soybean, and wheat bids at major market areas. Reduced barge freight has worked to trim US fob premiums, with US and Brazilian corn now offered at even money this morning. Argentine corn is no longer…

Morning Update

Soybeans add to gains overnight after friendly NOPA report. Grain prices are mixed this morning as soybeans continue the recovery towards the post-October WASDE crop report high on a friendly NOPA crush yesterday that showed stocks at the lowest levels in nine years for bean oil. Biodiesel production is expected to be up 40% next…