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Ukraine Export Corridor questioned. Grain futures took an about-face overnight, reversing sharply Friday’s grain price slump celebration of the Ukrainian Export Corridor signing as Russia was launching missile strikes on Saturday morning into the Odessa grain ports, claiming there were ships there with US military munitions on board. After declining for 60 days since the…

Cattle On Feed On Feed: 100% vs 100.1% estimate Placed: 98% vs 94.7% estimate Marketed: 102% vs 102% estimate Inventory: 98% vs 97.9% estimate Calves: 99% vs 98% estimate Report was Neutral to slightly negative on placement number. Expect .50-1.00 lower open on Monday.

Dec bean oil found support and looks to rally, lifting beans.

Ukraine grain corridor signed today. It’s been 60 days since the hint of a Ukrainian Safe Grain Corridor was first proposed by the UN, and spot wheat futures have declined by $5.00, soybeans $4.00, and corn $2.00 and are back to pre-Ukrainian invasion values. According to Turkish officials, the anticipated signing is at 8:30 a.m….

Russia turns on Nordstream 1 and oil tumbles. Grain futures had a mixed start Wednesday evening, which turned into a freefall overnight, as crude oil tumbled as much as $5.00 a barrel when Russia restarted Nordstream 1 overnight to full capacity. As oil fell, the whole commodity world moved lower in its wake, with gold…

Spec Trade: Buy a Sept Chicago wheat at the MKT, 822 last with a 808 stop. Take profits at 842.

Grain futures produce a mixed overnight trade. Grain futures produced a mixed overnight session, with wheat futures staging a spectacular recovery on the prospects that the Egyptian wheat tender will be taking US SRW wheat. At the same time, corn and soybeans struggled on the chances of improving moisture next week in the 8-10 day…

Spec trade: Buy a December corn at the MKT, 587 last with a 576 stop. Corn could be setting up a large apex and you need to buy above prior lows again. We stopped out overnight with a $1,000 gain overnight, and are re-establishing our long.

Grain prices burdened with seasonal apathy. Grain futures worked lower overnight except for wheat prices that crossed unchanged several times, as Egypt did announce they would accept protein as low as 10.5% in order to receive alternate sources of wheat from the US via SRW wheat being the cheapest in the world presently (Egypt announces…

Heat, GASC tender and will Ukraine/Russia make the deal. Grain futures are sharply higher this morning after a volatile start that found initial selling but recovered in the overnight back to session highs. Concerns for searing heat in the Central US along with Europe, reducing row crop yield potential, and Egypt tendering for wheat, while…