Funds Buy and Push Grains Higher Trading Weather, Crop Ratings, Rally in Soy Products: Cattle Consolidate with Higher Corn

Grains up on fund buying, putting in weather premium w/drop in crop ratings, but soy products are also pushing beans. Cattle consolidate w/higher corn, hogs mixed. Tomm Pfitzenmaier, Summit Commodity Brokerage.

Grains are higher on fund buying and putting in weather premium on dry forecasts, drop in crop ratings, but soy products are also pushing soybeans. Cattle consolidate with higher corn, hogs mixed. Tomm Pfitzenmaier, Summit Commodity Brokerage has more.

AgWeb-Logo crop
Related Stories
Joe Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek says the gap lower opening in cattle futures Monday in response to the border reopening to Mexican imports was volatile. They anticipate more to come to price in the news, even after a $25 to $30 break in the futures recently.
Brian Grete with Commstock Investments says, “We’ve seen China come in and be a fairly active buyer over the past several weeks here of new crop U.S. soybeans. There was more talk of that on Friday. And so that gave us some price support.”
Scott Varilek with Kooima Kooima Varilek says the live cattle futures made new lows for the move Thursday before finding support and putting in key reversals.
Get News Daily
Get Market Alerts
Get News & Markets App