Markets Now
National reporter Michelle Rook talks daily with industry analysts to break down crop and livestock commodity markets. Listen below to learn what’s happening with the markets when they open, at midday and again at close.
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Alan Brugler, Brugler Marketing, says it was a risk off day in grain and cotton markets removing weather premium. The lack of money flow into grains, the stock market and crude oil was also evident to start June.
Cattle fall after lower weekly closes and softer cash trade, holding chart support. Hogs struggle on fund selling. Soybeans pull corn lower and wheat off its highs. Brad Kooima, Kooima Kooima Varilek, has more.
Grain futures ended lower for the week removing weather premium. Naomi Blohm, Total Farm Marketing, says, “It feels like it’s doing a warning shot just to remind us that the crop is getting planted.”
Technically, Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group, says weather rallies can be fleeting and this week there were sell signals in the grain market.
Grain and cattle futures end mostly lower on Friday and were lower for the week. Naomi Blohm, Total Farm Marketing, says weather, crop ratings and what the funds want to do next will determine future market direction.
Grains recover after three down days. Is this recovery all technical and will it last? Darin Newsom, Sr. Market Analyst for Barchart, says wheat has the best chance with concerns about drought in HRW areas.
Cattle and grains end lower so was it end of month profit taking or a trend change? Scott Varilek, Kooima Kooima Varilek says cattle will recover but grains need a new weather story.
Cattle were lower for a second day with China news kicking in algorithm selling, while hogs bounce. Grains lower removing weather premium but Scott Varilek, Kooima Kooima Varilek, says it’s a possible top.
Vince Boddicker, Farmers Trading Company says corn and wheat see end of month profit taking in need of a new weather story, soybeans try to hold slight gains. Cattle trying to recover, hogs search for a low.
Rich Nelson with Allendale, Inc. says several factors created a risk off day in grain and livestock including end of the month profit taking.