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Today’s commodity market news. Featuring expert analysis from Michelle Rook, Jerry Gulke and Pro Farmer Editors.
China has resumed its purchases of Canadian canola, an early sign of a revival in the trade
Soybeans and soybean oil saw a higher day on Tuesday driven by hopes President Trump would make a biofuels policy announcement regarding 45Z or the RVO proposal while speaking in Iowa after the market close says Naomi Blohm with Total Farm Marketing.
Soybeans and bean oil were slightly higher on Tuesday morning with hopes President Trump may make an announcement or at least talk positive about the 45Z program according to Mark Schultz with Northstar Commodity.
China has ramped up its orders for Brazilian cargoes of soybeans.
Sam Hudson with Corn Belt Marketing says the grain markets all hit technical resistance on the charts and may have seen profit taking.
Brad Kooima with Kooima Kooima Varilek says he was concerned the trade might view a slightly bearish Cattle on Feed report placement number as a reason to sell but the market was more focused on the higher cash trade Friday.
Canada has agreed to lower tariffs on 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles, as part of a deal aimed at rebuilding ties with Beijing.
Many will attribute last week’s corn market rally to the cold weather and slowing grain movement from truck to barge. However, Jerry Gulke says the corn market has technically looked good for a while.
Grain markets closed strong on Friday and posted higher weekly closes across the complex. What drove the rally? Jim McCormick of AgMarket.Net points to a few notable factors.
Price action summary and outlook for the next 5, 30 and 90 day segments.
Live and feeder cattle futures were weaker to start Friday as the market was seeing some profit taking and caution ahead of the USDA Cattle on Feed Report according to Scott Varilek with Kooima Kooima Varilek.
Randy Martinson with Martinson Ag says wheat saw support on a combination of technical buying or short covering and the market was adding some weather premium.
Soybeans continued to rally on Thursday. Lane Akre, economist with Pro Farmer, says this isn’t just short covering.
Farm leaders urged lawmakers to work quickly to include additional aid for farmers.
Greg McBride with Allendale, Inc. says hot, dry weather is expected in much of Argentina and Southern Brazil in the next 10 days and it is hitting at the critical pod filling stage for some of the soybean crop.
Soybean futures are higher early Wednesday with the easing of risk-off selling pressure.
Grains futures consolidated on Tuesday with risk-off selling tied to outside market concerns regarding possible EU tariffs and retaliation according to Oliver Sloup with Blue Line Futures.
Brad Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek says with the confirmation of no cases of NWS in the U.S. the cattle market should rebound Tuesday. However, with outside markets seeing risk off selling that may temper some of the buying interest in cattle.
Jerry Gulke, president of The Gulke Group, says the report provided some valuable lessons about marketing.
Shawn Hackett with Hackett Financial Advisors says with corn and soybean prices plunging at the beginning of the week in response to the bearish USDA report, the lower price levels stimulated end user buying.
Joe Kooima with Kooima Kooima Varilek says cattle futures were down early on liquidation ahead of the three day weekend, lack of fed cash news and a rumor of NWS in the U.S.
John Heinberg with Total Farm Marketing says soybeans rallied with the surging bean oil market on Thursday on talk of favorable biofuels policy in the Renewable Fuels Standard.
Allison Thompson with The Money Farm thinks the bearish USDA report news is priced into the market and this weeks lows are likely to hold.
The first full week of 2026 marked another record for U.S. ethanol production.
Don Roose with U.S. Commodities says the bearish USDA report news has been largely factored in but corn and soybeans are establishing new lower trading ranges.
Corn and soybeans try to bounce Wednesday morning. Vince Boddicker with Farmers Trading Company says some of this is short covering or corrective buying as the market was oversold but he’s not sure the bearish USDA news is all digested.
Brian Grete with Commstock Investments says the corn market is still trying to digest the shock of USDA’s January reports. March corn futures came within striking distance of the Aug. 12 low at $4.10.
Brad Kooima with Kooima Kooima Varilek says strong cash has been supportive of the cattle futures and he expects a higher week in the fed market again this week. Grains are still digesting USDA’s bearish reports.
New tariffs on goods from countries trading with Iran risks derailing his one-year trade truce with China.
Arlan Suderman, chief commodities economist with StoneX says the move surprised him even though their customer survey’s during the season had yield at 186 bu.