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Darin Newsom with Barchart says most of the bounce in grains is tied to technical and corrective buying as the markets got oversold.
Don Roose of U.S. Commodities says grain markets bounced off key technical support on Monday but are marking time ahead of the WASDE.
Last week the live and feeder cattle futures technically looked promising says Joe Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek, but then the market posted lower weekly closes.
Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group, says the 20 cent losses in corn on Wednesday cost farmers raising 200 bu. an acre corn $40 an acre.
Dec corn futures ended 4 1/2 cents lower on Friday at $4.97 3/4 and was down 30 1/2 cents for the week.
Cattle futures ran into chart resistance after new highs for the move on Thursday and on live cattle the market tested the long term trend line.
Oliver Sloup of Blue Line Futures says funds were in liquidation mode in soybeans, decreasing their risk exposure with spillover weakness in corn.
Corn was bouncing off the $5 psychological level of support and the close will be important Thursday.
USDA’s 2.095 billion bu. stocks in all positions estimate for corn is an increase of 173 million bu. compared to the ending stocks in the September WASDE,
Dec corn ended the day just above the $5 mark but with the added supply shock from USDA can this technical level hold?