Corn Commodity Markets, Prices & Futures
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Latest News From Corn Markets
Chip Nellinger, Blue Reef Agri-Marketing, says grains rallied with corn leading the charge on end of month short covering and ahead of a long holiday weekend.
However, the stagnation comes as the disparity between fertilizer prices and potential profits widens.
Scott Varilek with Kooima Kooima Varilek says live and feeder cattle futures saw end of month profit taking on Thursday and some follow through selling to start Friday.
The Midwest crop is being pushed into black layer (R6) prematurely in some areas in ways that are easy to confuse with normal drydown factors.
Brazil’s environmental authorities seized around 7,000 illegal head of cattle in the Amazon and issued fines to several ranchers and slaughterhouses.
Inflation adjusted cost of production for corn has been consistently high since 2012
Don Roose, U.S. Commodities, says grain futures all ended slightly higher Thursday with end of month positioning and profit taking.
With $8 cash soybean bids in the Dakotas and Minnesota, and no bids for fall in a few markets, farmers might need to break the norm and store soybeans.
The disease is causing turmoil for farmers who have a large crop in the making. In some cases, a Hail Mary fungicide application at R4 up to early dent (R5) might make sense this season, say agronomists.
DuWayne Bosse with Bolt Marketing says the grain markets saw selling pressure from a stronger dollar and some liquidation ahead of first notice day on Friday and on end of the month liquidation.