Morning Update 5/13/22

French milling wheat, spring wheat and Dec corn make new contract highs overnight. Grain futures are mixed in the morning session after overnight action found French milling wheat, spring wheat, and December corn making new contract highs on follow-through buying from yesterday’s friendly constructed WASDE crop report for wheat and corn. Soybean prices also firmed…

Morning Update 5/11/22

CPI still running hot. Grain futures are higher this morning but well off the sharply higher status achieved in the morning hours before the CPI data came out. CPI data reflected a percentage increase when most estimates anticipated inflation cooling a bit. (CPI rose 8.3% year-over-year versus an estimate of 8.1%) This pushed the dollar…

Morning Update 5/10/22

Turn-around Tuesday on time. Monday’s shellacking led to a turn-around Tuesday overnight as grain prices recovered alongside equity valuations. The upcoming WASDA report on Thursday and the developing building drought in Europe create a new catalyst for price appreciation. The European weather forecast for W and N Europe for the next two weeks has temperatures…

Morning Update 5/9/22

Sharply lower equity markets creates risk-off in commodities. Row crop futures moved sharply lower last night as the equity markets continued their heavy liquidation, dragging energies and metals lower, which pushed corn and beans to the downside on potential bio-fuel reduced usage. (That may not be a fact heading into this time of year, but…

Morning Update 5/6/22

Stats Canada data deemed friendly for wheat and canola. Grain futures tumbled sharply in the night session, a negative reaction to the late heavy losses in the stock market, which saw risk-off trade driving prices lower. Also, a warmer forecast for next week offers more planting opportunities added to the selling. By morning wheat prices…