Corn Commodity Markets, Prices & Futures
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Latest News From Corn Markets
A recap of the week’s price action, with outlook for the next 5, 30 and 90 day segments.
Milk prices had a nearly $5 rally from the April lows but have since pulled back. Bryan Doherty, Total Farm Marketing, says cheese prices will dictate where prices head next and so far consumer demand has stalled.
The new CBO projections “prove what we have been saying all along: the House Republican farm bill is unpaid-for, relying on magic math and wishful thinking,” Senate Ag Chair Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) said.
Michigan’s ag department will provide the grant money for to up to 20 farms from its emergency response funds.
The Fed is expected to start lowering interest rates by the end of the year. Darin Newsom, Senior Market Analyst with Barchart, says this may keep fund money away from the grain markets.
Row crops recovered on Tuesday, while cattle posted another lower day. Brad Kooima, Kooima Varilek says all those markets saw corrective action.
Live cattle futures fall a second day in what Brad Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek calls routine profit taking. Row crops see a technical bounce with lower crop ratings.
The world’s renewable fuel makers will face a waste oil supply crunch, Bloomberg reports.
Block out time for crop scouting so you don’t neglect it. Any management and time you lavish on your corn crop as it goes through the pollination period is time well spent, says Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal Field Agronomist.
Bryan Doherty, Total Farm Marketing, says corn and soybeans try to bounce as they are technically oversold and with a 2% drop in crop ratings, wheat tries to follow but fails.