Farmers' Planting Pace Well ahead of Average
May 08, 2012
Good Morning! Paul Georgy with early morning comments for May 8, 2012 at 5.15 am. Corn and soybeans futures are higher on strong cash and short covering. The outside markets are not providing any support as dollar is higher and crude oil is down 1.00. Planting progress for corn was 71% vs. 32% average and soybeans were 24% vs. 11% average. Emergence of corn was 32% while soybeans were 7% emerged. Spring wheat plantings were 84% complete compared to 19% last year. Winter wheat conditions were 1% to 63% good to excellent. Safras reduces Brazil soybean harvest to 66.82 million metric tons. Thursday at 7:30 am the USDA gives us May Supply and Demand. Trade estimates for corn ending stocks in old crop corn is 749 which would be a reduction of 56 million bushels from USDA’s last month estimate. Soybean ending stocks are expected to fall 36 million bushel from USDA’s previous estimate. There are very wide ranges in for the first estimate of new crop (2012-13) corn ending stocks 1.209 up to 2.072 and soybeans 87 up to 250 million bushel. The wide ranges give us the opinion that prices could be choppy through the report on Thursday. Cattle and hog futures recovered from lower opening giving the first sign the liquidation may be coming to an end. Boxed beef prices were mixed with choice up .19 and select down 1.43. Pork cutout values were down .41. Pork production in US on a weekly basis is running 4.9% higher than last year. China’s pork prices have fallen for 14 straight weeks due to a slowdown in consumption and oversupply. Follow us on twitter at
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Markets as of 5:15AM
Jly Corn +7
Jly Beans +4 3/4
Jly Wheat +5 1/4
Jun Cattle -.12
Jun Hogs -.30
Jun S&P -7.25
Jun Dlr +.14
May Crude -1.06
June Gold -11.60
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Allendale Advanced Charts
Monday’s inside range day at the bottom of the down trend implies that the Wheat markets negative price action could be slowing down. If the market breaks the 5/3/12 $5.99 1/2 low further weakness should not surprise. This markets attempt at recovery will be capped until the 3 consecutive closes at $6.55 1/2 are taken out.
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Nelson Notes from the desk of Rich Nelson
Much of the North Central Corn Belt saw rains of 0.50 to 1.50 over the weekend. Other areas received less than 0.50 inch. The West will be dry through the remainder of the week. The East will see 0.40 to 1.00 inch today then dry for the rest of the week. Wet weather through this past weekend then dry conditions will be conducive to crop development.
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