Corn Commodity Markets, Prices & Futures
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Corn planting is now 2% ahead of the five year national average, while soybeans are currently 4% ahead, according to the April 22, 2024, USDA Crop Progress report.
Jim McCormick, AgMarket.Net, says the wheat market is adding risk premium and if it keeps going corn and soybeans could follow producing a sustained fund short covering rally.
A risk on day resulted in higher closes in both grain and livestock futures. What drove the buying, and will it continue? Jim McCormick, AgMarket.Net, has details.
Growing degree days (GDDs) are a more reliable method to predict corn emergence and development than calendar days. Start calculating GDDs daily the day after planting. Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie explains.
Cattle rally with bullish placements in the Cattle on Feed report and steady Southern cash says Brad Kooima, Kooima Kooima Varilek. Hogs fail after a chart breakout. Grains rally on EU weather/frost & short covering.
As drought deteriorates across the U.S., it’s a positive signal for growing a big crop in 2024. And analysts say if weather continues to fuel this year’s crop, December corn futures could fall into the $3 range by fall.
Grains close higher on Friday on short covering and putting in some risk premium, but will the rally continue into next week? Rich Nelson, Allendale, Inc, says it will be a tough lift.
USDA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced the release of $1 billion in previously allocated food aid.
Despite being lower for the week, the grain markets all closed higher on Friday and might have been putting in risk premium says Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group.
Grains close higher on short covering and putting in some risk premium. Live cattle ended higher with steady Southern cash. Hogs broke above chart resistance. Rich Nelson, Allendale, Inc. covers it all.