Corn Commodity Markets, Prices & Futures
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Latest News From Corn Markets
As the extreme volatility and extended price limits played out in the markets this week, Joe Vaclavik of Standard Grain says the main issue traders are watching are possible changes to corn acreage this year.
China’s corn buying spree continued Friday with a sale of 1.36 million metric tons (mmt). The announcement came on the heels of a week of consistent new crop sales.
The unexplained suspension of operations of a key Chinese agricultural data provider has left traders, analysts and brokers scrambling for other sources of information on one of the world’s most important farm markets.
Dry weather and poorly timed planting are weighing on Brazil’s second corn crop this year, reviving fears of another surge in feed prices like the one that battered big meatpackers after a 2016 drought.
USDA confirmed on Monday China purchased just over 1 million metric tons of new crop corn, but the country also canceled 280,000 metric tons of old crop corn. The buying spree signals tight supplies could continue.
The last seven days were busy with corn planting across the U.S.
The commodity markets proved the bull market is far from over, as May corn futures ended the week above the $7.70 mark. Soybean prices had a similar story, with old crop finishing Friday above $16.
Chinese buyers bought 1.36 million tonnes of U.S. corn, matching their seventh biggest ever purchase of U.S. supplies of the grain, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Friday.
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Chicago Board of Trade corn futures extended a rally on Thursday above eight-year highs as dry weather threatened harvest yields in major exporter Brazil and kept the focus on ebbing global supplies.