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The grain trade slips below Friday’s lows but holds amid ongoing outside market influences. The grain trade pushed lower on Friday with the chaos and concern that the new potential Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh, may be a fiscal hawk, unfounded for now, but it’s the momentum that goes with it. This selling continued overnight…

Cattle Inventory Report 1/30/26 All Cattle/ Calves 99.6 vs 99.7 estBeef Cows 99.0 vs 100.4 estDairy Cows 102.0 vs 101.1 estAnnual calf crop 98.4 vs 99.3 estReport is mostly neutral to pre report expectations.

Winter wheat values are challenging annual and 60-day highs. Grain futures are mixed this morning with wheat showing gains as corn and soybeans drift slightly from this past week’s lift. Wheat futures are following French milling wheat higher which is making new 2-month high. This is pulling US winter wheat values in a similar scenario,…

Grains climb higher again overnight, as the U.S. dollar potentially breaks down on the monthly charts. Grains have created a morning event that has remained a constant: higher starts over the past week. The only question is: can the day-session seller vigilantes stall it out again? Meanwhile, gold adds another $200 in gains on the…

Grains rally as index funds find renewed interest in ownership. Corn, soybeans, and wheat are all seeing gains in overnight trade, boosted by renewed interest from managed money. However, the real momentum is in the metals market, gold has surged nearly $200 an ounce and silver is up over $7, driven by growing concerns over…

Turnaround Tuesday looks promising for grains if the selling vigilantes can be pushed back on the day session opening. Grains are firmer this morning, in Turnaround-Tuesday style, and soybeans are ignoring yesterday’s outside-day lower close. (I discussed this in yesterday’s newsletter, how the outside-day movements don’t carry the leverage they used to years earlier, as…

Grains are fading after overnight strength, even though the US dollar is breaking below 97.00. Typically, this is a supportive event. This morning, the grain trade is fading from last night’s early strength, as the US dollar tipped lower and metals surged to phenomenal new all-time highs, with gold now well above 5000 and silver…

Cattle On Feed On Feed: 96.8% vs 96.8% estimatePlaced: 94.6% vs 92.6% estimateMarketed: 101.8% vs 101.5% estimate The report is slightly negative relative to pre-report estimates because placements were a bit higher than expected.

Large export sales numbers have the grain trade near weekly highs this morning. This morning’s grain trade is higher across the board, in anticipation of strong export sales numbers being released. Those numbers were solid with corn having a massive rebound of exports after the holidays at 4.01 MMTs, soybeans at 2.115 MMTs, and even…

Another night session that grains love to rally in. Will the seller vigilantes prevail again in the day session. Grain futures produced another plus side night session, which again will have to tend to the day session seller vigilantes. Strength came overnight as Pres. Trump and his call for 10% tariffs on Europe starting February…