Grains Close Higher for Week After Bearish WASDE Trade Weather, Yield, Grain Deal: Live Cattle Rebound to Contract Highs

Grains higher for the week shaking off the bearish WASDE. Focus on weather, yield, Black Sea Grain Deal and falling dollar. Live cattle rebound into new contract highs, hogs consolidate. Jim McCormick, AgMarket.Net.

Grains close mostly higher Friday and for the week shaking off the bearish WASDE, so what is it saying about the market? Focus on weather, yield, Black Sea Grain Deal and falling dollar. Live cattle rebound into new contract highs with higher cash @ $290-$292/$186 in the north, hogs consolidate. Jim McCormick, AgMarket.Net has more.

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