Market Analysis
Grains down on technical selling w/a risk off day, after taking out major chart support, weather is also bearish. Cattle see profit taking awaiting COF, with short covering in hogs. Kent Beadle, Paradigm Futures.
AgDay TV Markets Now: Chip Nellinger, Blue Reef Agri-Marketing talks about another risk off day in grains but says profit taking and rain chances in HRW areas were also factors. What’s the downside risk ahead?
Grains ended lower with another risk off day, but also saw profit taking. Rain chances also sunk wheat. Cattle recovered even with softer cash, but contract lows in hogs. Chip Nellinger, Blue Reef Agri-Marketing.
Grains lower w/risk off day, slow exports, rain chances in wheat areas, profit taking. Cattle rebound w/the discount to cash, some sales in NE at 288/183. Hogs down w/cash. Vince Boddicker, Farmers Trading Company
Another risk off day in commodities. Cattle consolidate with weaker cash, while hogs aren’t seeing follow through buying. Row crops are lower but how much downside risk is there? Scott Varilek, Kooima Kooima Varilek.
AgDay TV Markets Now: Don Roose, U.S. Commodities says risk off day, weather and Ukraine export resumption caused profit taking and selling in the grains Wednesday.
Grains and cattle mostly lower with a risk off day due to outside markets on hawkish Fed comments, weather, resumption of Ukraine exports. Hogs bounce off contract lows. Don Roose of U.S. Commodities has details.
Grains and now cattle have turned mostly lower in a risk off day in outside markets, but are also trading weather. Hog hit contract lows before short covering emerged. John Payne of Hedge Point Global Markets.
Grains see risk off and corrective selling, plus Ukraine shipments resumed. Cattle supported with tight numbers, strong demand, but hogs hit new lows. Tomm Pfitzenmaier, Summit Commodity Brokerage.
AgDay TV Markets Now: Darren Frye, Water Street Solutions says new crop corn and bean contracts led putting in weather premium, but will chart support hold once planting accelerates? And will old crop stay strong?
Corn and soybeans end higher but new crop leads putting weather premium. Wheat ignores crop ratings and weather, watches Black Sea news. Fund buying, strong cash supports cattle. Darren Frye, Water Street Solutions.
Wheat sets back on profit taking, with corn & beans trying to hold watching weather, seeing spread trade. Live cattle are consolidating, while feeders are supported by strong cash. Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag.
2-Sided in livestock with some consolidation. Will cash be higher again this week? Are hogs trying to bottom? Some profit taking and spread unwinding in corn. More with Brad Kooima, Kooima Kooima Varilek.
AgDay TV Markets Now: Matt Bennett with AgMarket.Net recaps the risk on day in ag markets, but says grains were also supported by weather and fund/technical buying after Nov soybeans and Dec corn held support.
Fund buying with the risk on day and strong technicals support ag markets. Plus, grains watch weather and the Argentina strike. Cattle recover with higher cash ideas. More with Matt Bennett of AgMarket.Net.
Grains all higher on weather and technicals, plus soybeans eye a strike in Argentina & NOPA crush. Cattle bounce on higher beef and cash ideas, with short covering in hogs. DuWayne Bosse of Bolt Marketing explains.
Wheat and corn mostly lower on spreads & profit taking, despite cold weekend temps. Soybeans up on Argentina strike. Cattle rebound on higher cash ideas. Kevin Duling, KD Investors explains.
AgDay TV Markets Now: Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist with StoneX says wheat and corn traded weather, China export news, while the big Brazil crop weighed on beans. Row crops focus on planting next week.
Wheat put in war/weather premium, w/corn rebounding on China biz. Follow through selling in beans w/Brazil’s record supplies. Cattle saw some healthy profit taking, w/short covering in hogs. Arlan Suderman, StoneX.
Soybeans down on news of Brazil imports, corn gets a boost from China sales, wheat puts in weather & war premium. Cattle see profit taking & hedge pressure, w/short covering in hogs. Ted Seifried, Zaner Ag Hedge.
Cattle see profit taking & hedge selling after record cash. Mostly $175 South, $290 North. Hogs seeing short covering off contract lows. Bull spreading in corn w/ China biz.. Scott Varilek of Kooima Kooima Varilek.
AgDay TV Markets Now: Tommy Grisafi of Advance Trading discusses the risk off selling in grains and the drop coming in cash grain prices as May options expire and elevators roll from bidding off May to July.
Markets end mostly lower on risk off, profit taking on corn & soybean spreads, and poor exports. Nearby cattle hit new highs after record cash, then saw hedge pressure. Tommy Grisafi of Advance Trading.
Nearby cattle hit new highs as record cash trickles in, while hogs make new contract lows. Corn and soybeans have backed off highs, with lower wheat but still seeing bull spreads. Mike Minor of Professional Ag Marketing.
Corn and Soybeans See Bull Spreading with China Biz and Tight Cash Markets. Crude Oil Has a Chart Breakout, While Cattle are Red Hot!
Corn and beans mixed with tight supplies and bull spreads, while new crop trades weather. Wheat also mixed on spreads. More highs in cattle chasing cash while hogs can’t find a bottom. Garrett Toay, AgTraderTalk.
AgDay TV Markets Now: Garrett Toay of AgTrader Talk Says Tight Supplies and Bull Spreads Support Old Crop Corn and Beans, While Cattle Show No Signs of a Top
Grains higher except new crop corn and beans with better weather. Cattle making more highs with futures still at a discount to cash, while hogs look for a bottom. Mark Schultz of Northstar Commodity has details.
Grains mixed eyeing weather but will row crops get their typical spring rally? Cattle and milk futures rally, can they be sustained? Bryan Doherty of Total Farm Marketing has the answers.
The April WASDE was slightly bearish for U.S. ending stocks compared to expectations, while Argentina production was cut by 3 mmt on corn and 6 mmt on soybeans due to drought.