Post crop report selling returns overnight. Grain futures start started overnight mixed to firmer, and turned week throughout the evening. Since the first of the year, there have been 11 USDA crop reports, which 9 of them finding immediate selling the day after the report. Friday’s crop report will be the 12th, with today making…
USDA WASDE Report 9/10/21 Report was slightly negative but end-users are buying into the market creating a firm tone.
Spec trade: Place a buy stop on a Dec corn at 518.2. Use a 5 cent stop if filled on trade. The bearishness is so pervasive, a friendly number will create a sharp up move. If filled, use a 5 cent stop.
USDA Crop Production report out today. Grain futures experienced a mostly firm overnight session after becoming severely oversold ahead of today’s September USDA crop report out at 11 AM CT. Progress in restoring the US Gulf export capacity is quickly coming into place. ADM announced that it will restart two export facilities (Ama and Reserve)…
FSA makes an accidental early release. Grain futures resumed the ongoing bearish trend overnight, with wheat and corn making new lows while soybeans continue to hold last week’s lows. The bearish price attitude continues over the concerns of Gulf export closures persisting even though yesterday Entergy reported that 90% of New Orleans has power and…
Spec Trade: Buy March Corn at the MKT, 522.6 last with a 516 stop. Entergy will have power up in 2 days.
Corn and soybeans find stability. Corn and soybean futures again mounted a mild bounce overnight, as there is growing hope that of the 12 export facilities in the Gulf that several will receive power before the end of the week. Slowly, Gulf elevators will be brought back up in the next week, but it will…
Crop Condition Ratings Corn ratings gd/ex came in at 59% which is down 1% from last week’s 60%. Bean ratings gd/ex came in at 57% which is up 1% from last week’s 56%. With Crop becoming mature these rating are becoming less price impactful.
Spec Trade: Buy a Dec KC Wheat at the MKT, 717 last with a 704 stop.
Grain futures look to Friday’s WASDA report. Grain futures had a firm session overnight on light volume after the three day holiday weekend on rumored Chinese buying of futures in place of FOB/CIF bids which are unavailable at the Gulf. Typical with overnight strength, grain futures faded in the later hours of the morning session….
