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Officials expect Ukraine’s key agricultural exports – grains, oilseeds and oils – to rise to about 4 MMT this month . . .
Markets Mixed: Technical Buying, Smaller Crop Support Corn and Wheat; Rain and Record Crop Hit Beans
Mixed market finish on Monday. Corn pricing in the smaller crop, with wheat seeing technical buying. Soybeans set back with yield boosting rains. Cattle continue to consolidate, with short covering in the hogs.
Mixed mid-session with corn, wheat and hogs higher. Pro Farmer estimates, money flow and weather all at play today. Michelle Rook gets a summary with Jeff Hoogendoorn of Professional Ag Marketing.
Pro Farmer released their state yield estimates on Friday. We compared Pro Farmer’s numbers to USDA’s state yield estimates in the August WASDE to determine the biggest misses in the east and west.
Markets open mixed with corn seeing support after the lower Pro Farmer corn yield and wheat is following. Soybeans down with rain over the weekend. Livestock see follow through technical selling and weaker cash.
In a relatively short time, corn and soybean prices have both gained $1 per bushel. This creates a decision-making opportunity.
On Thursday, corn prices jumped again. Prices are set for an week of back-to-back gains, the longest streak since May 2021.
December corn futures rose to the highest price since late June and soybeans and wheat also rose amid concern over dry weather. Why did corn prices surge? Several bullish factors are at play,
Acres that U.S. farmers were unable to plant have more than tripled from the same period last year as extreme weather wreaks havoc on fields.
With the price premiums for war, trade distortion, demand destruction and weather fully discounted in the July price collapse, it suggests the stars are still aligned for more fireworks.