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  • Morning Update

    Corn set for the highest weekly close since mid-June. This morning’s grain trade is mixed, consolidating recent gains on a Friday settlement. If corn can close over 450, this will be the highest spot weekly close since June. Export sales numbers out this morning were considered strong, with soybeans just under 1 MMT and corn…

  • Morning Update

    Markets return to regular time trades for the rest of the week. This morning’s grain trade lacks fresh news, so anticipated openings are mixed. Russia released its 2024 final Russian crop estimate earlier today, and they put the all-grain crop at 125 MMTs and the wheat crop at 82.4 MMTs. The USDA estimated the 24…

  • Morning Update

    Markets are set for a noon-time close today. Merry Christmas Eve Day! A thin holiday trade greets the overnight session, with the market fluctuating from both sides of unchanged. Trade thins out as it prepares for a 12:05 p.m. CT close for grains today and a 12:15 settlement for livestock. Markets reopen at 8:30 a.m….

  • Morning Update

    Corn recovers to its December highs to start the week. Grain prices were mostly higher overnight, with corn advancing towards the December highs near 450, prompting short-covering in wheat. The strength of soybeans overnight faded after the massive two-day lift in soybean meal stalled. Algeria is tendering for 50,000 MTs of wheat from mid-February into…

  • Morning Update

    Soybeans are higher, having rallied almost $0.30 off Thursday morning’s low. This morning’s grain trade is seeing strength in soybeans as the market has recovered almost $0.30 off the Thursday morning low on rumors that China is buying 500,000 MTs of US beans for March/April delivery. Some believe they’re doing it for political purposes, buying…

  • Morning Update

    This morning’s grain trade is mixed. Soybeans bounced from yesterday’s significant losses, while wheat slipped to new contract lows in Chicago. This morning’s grain trade has wheat futures leading the weakness as they digested the US dollar’s new strength to near 108.00, with the March Chicago wheat contract at a new contract low. The continuation…

  • Morning Update

    Soybean values break to new contract lows. A widely mixed trade with wheat higher, while soybeans tumble as the Continuing Resolution Bill before Congress offers nothing for soybean oil but has E15 year-round for ethanol in it. The bill before the U.S. House includes $31 Bil of aid for farmers being labeled as disaster aid…

  • Morning Update

    The grain trade showed a strong recovery overnight in wheat. The markets are showing signs of strength overnight, with wheat leading the way on Putin’s comments and some questions over Russia’s ability to facilitate exports as we move ahead. In the Eastern part of Ukraine, Russian forces have been making significant advances on the ground…