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Jon Scheve discusses how he made additional profit the past three months when the market didn’t move much.
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 price performance might have been a little disappointing but that’s because of USDA’s lofty ending stocks estimates at nearly 2 billion bushels for corn and 550 million bushels for soybeans.
That’s a wrap! Here’s how things finished up in the grain and livestock markets.
USDA forecasts all food costs this year will rise 2.3%.
Bryan Doherty, Total Farm Marketing, says grains saw profit taking on Friday after hitting chart resistance and a pick up in farmer selling.
The Soy Transportation Coalition says every foot of reduced water depth or draft is the equivalent of loading 7,000 fewer bushels of soybeans per barge.
Scott Varilek with Kooima Kooima Varilek says grains ease on profit taking and farmer selling. Cattle make more new highs for the move on hedge lifting and higher cash trade which was generally up $2 yesterday then fade.
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum announced a new agriculture plan aimed at reviving the country’s food production and distribution systems to resemble those of the 1980s.
Tomm Pfitzenmaier with Summit Commodity Brokerage says corn was pushed Thursday by strong demand with 15.5 million bushels of flash sales and weekly exports of 142 million bushels, the highest in 3 1/2 years.