Grains End Higher Friday on Corrective Buying, Livestock Mixed: Outside Markets React to Jobs Report

Grains end higher on corrective buying and with spillover from the higher crude oil market. Livestock saw fund selling on economic concerns. Michelle Rook gets analysis with Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag.

Grains end higher Friday on corrective buying and with spillover from the higher crude oil market. Livestock were leaning lower on more fund liquidation with outside markets like the DOW turning lower reacting to the jobs report. Michelle Rook gets analysis with Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag.

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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.
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