Markets Today
Live and feeder cattle futures were higher early Monday extending gains after Friday’s higher cash trade says Brad Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek.
He thinks cash could be higher again this week.
He thinks cash could be higher again this week.
Brian Grete with CommStock Investments says he thinks the price action on Friday is sending a strong signal about the soybean market direction.
Scott Varilek with Kooima Kooima Varilek says after crashing Thursday on fears of a beef plant strike, cattle are recovering on higher cash.
DuWayne Bosse with Bolt Marketing says the soybean market is still trying to price in the possibility of China buying another 300 million bu. of soybeans this marketing year.
Randy Martinson with Martinson Ag says, “This is, you know, basically 8 million metric ton or roughly 294 million bushels of added soybean demand that we were not expecting.”
Traders want proof from China of the potential soybean buys according to Joe Vaclavik of Standard Grain.
Tyler Schau of AgMarket says cattle futures make new highs for the move on higher cash and the report tailwind. Soybeans followed soybean oil which rallied as Treasury released 45Z guidance and that pulled up corn.
Matt Bennett with AgMarket.Net says it was a money flow day as grains were influenced by the selloff in crude oil and the precious metal markets, plus the higher dollar.
Ag market activity Friday and much of the week was dominated by money flow and spillover from outside markets like the metals, the energies, and the dollar. That’s according to Allison Thompson with The Money Farm.
Joe Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek says the cattle markets have gotten caught up in the outside market money flow but are also seeing some caution ahead of the USDA semi-annual cattle inventory report to be released Friday.