USDA crop report out Wednesday morning Better rains for Illinois and Iowa over the weekend and a little profit-taking ahead of the upcoming May WASDE Report on Wednesday (concerns of what the USDA may get the world to believe in carry out’s) created an overnight correction Sunday night. Soybeans bottomed on the opening, with corn…
Friday morning trade starts at the best price levels of the year. More of the same old same old, with new contract highs across the board and new all-time highs again for bean oil and canola. Only the winter wheat contracts have not made new contract highs yet but that’s a matter of a nickel…
New contract highs overnight for row crops and spring wheat. Grain futures bursted higher overnight after Wednesday’s strong close, making new contract highs for spring wheat and row crops. There was a return in bull spreading in the soy complex amid rising spot crush margins. New crop corn lifted on growing concerns over the cool…
Grain futures trade firm with prior price highs holding. Grain futures had a mixed start overnight that turned into a firm trade, but no contract highs were scored. Lite rains moving across central North Dakota in the early morning hours could not put pressure on the Minneapolis wheat contract as it continued to add gains…
Grain markets recover overnight in Turn-around Tuesday. Grain futures recovered overnight as we continue to flip trends from opening to opening. On Sunday night, the opening was the low, as the market bolted higher in that session. Monday morning, the day session start was the high. Flip that, and the opening of last night was…
Grain futures gapped higher in the overnight session. Grain futures gapped higher overnight on follow-through buying from Friday’s positive technical close. Dryness on the Brazilian corn crop is now creating a universal thought that the Safrina corn crop is likely producing a Brazilian total corn crop under 100 MTs. The only active contracts that made…
Deliveries arrived for soybean oil and beans. Grain futures are starting the last trading day of the month weaker, as deliveries did arrive for soybean oil in the amount of 629 contracts. There were 66 contracts of soybeans tendered against the May futures, which caused weakness initially overnight. That initial weakness was scooped up and…
A mostly quiet night trade session overnight. Grain futures put in a mild recovery overnight led by the May contracts, as two days of selling from contract highs is bringing in bottom picking. Today is the last day of trading for the May contract before they go deliverable on Friday. It’s also anticipated that Friday…
New crop hedge recommendation: There are two ways to approach the hedge, one can be with a fixed hedge to arrive contract (if you can get them done), or the other will be buying short-dated puts and continuing to leave the upside open. Buy the August 550 Short-dated corn put for 35 cents on 35%…
Has December Corn Topped? Even though the moving average is still holding, I do believe Dec corn has topped for awhile.Looking to sell a bounce to 565-570.
