Grains close mostly higher except for KC wheat, seeing corrective buying and crude oil strength. Soybeans led with help from bean oil and SA weather. Are the grains forming bottoms? Cattle lower despite a neutral COF on a lack of cash. Chip Nellinger, Blue Reef Agri-Marketing, has details.
Grains Mostly Higher but are Bottoms Forming? Cattle Disappoint After Neutral COF
Grains close mostly higher on corrective buying and crude oil strength. Are lows forming? Cattle lower despite a neutral COF on a lack of cash. Chip Nellinger, Blue Reef Agri-Marketing, has details.
January 22, 2024 03:18 PM
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