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Weekly overview of ag commodity market news and price action compiled by Austin Schroeder with Brugler Marketing. Not intended as trading advice. Actions taken are responsibility of the reader.

Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group, says corn made a bullish weekly reversal and that technical action could signal a bottom in the market.

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Portions of the central Plains, the Upper Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic will be in a heat dome by Tuesday. But first, those regions will see thunderstorms and heavy rains this weekend, according to the National Weather Service.

Don Roose, U.S. Commodities, says grain markets rallied Friday and were higher for the week. The markets saw technical buying and short covering as traders were adding weather premium in the corn market, and to some degree to soybeans. But is weather enough to bottom the market?