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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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Grains ease on Tuesday on farmer selling and lack of fund buying. Arlan Suderman with StoneX says weather concerns may be priced in until after the WASDE.
Tomm Pfitzenmaier, Summit Commodity Brokerage, says grains mixed as fund buying pauses and with increased farmer selling. Markets are watching weather, WASDE. Livestock see a Turnaround Tuesday bounce.
Tommy Grisafi, Advance Trading, says it’s the combination of weather and production concerns globally and in the U.S. that have finally caught the grain market’s attention and will dictate how high prices go.
Grains rally on weather and technical buying. Will funds keep covering their short positions with the chart breakouts and what kind of rally could that produce? Tommy Grisafi, Advance Trading, has answers.
The SAF guidance was more stringent than the biofuels industry hoped for. Eligibility requires carbon capture or farmers adopting Climate Smart Ag practices. However, they consider use of the GREET model a victory.
Brad Kooima, Kooima Kooima Varilek, says cattle are trading more H5N1 headlines and disregarding higher cash, hogs are following. Grains are adding weather premium, but he cautions weather rallies are fleeting.
Don Roose, U.S. Commodities, says grain markets are trading weather and have had some chart breakouts. That could keep funds buying but only if weather continues to be bullish.
Corn, soybean and soybean meal futures posted higher weekly closes, but it’s hard to predict how far the grain markets could rally, says Jerry Gulke. “Now it becomes more of an art than a science,” he adds.
Grains ended higher on Friday with chart breakouts on weather and crop concerns, plus fund short covering. Cattle mixed, hogs. lower.
Grain markets have been rallying this week on weather and crop concerns and it’s not just wheat. Eric Snodgrass, Senior Science Fellow, Nutrien Ag Solutions, talks about Northern and Southern Hemisphere weather.