Soybean News
The latest soybean commodity market news and insights for soybean producers and agribusiness.
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Scott Varilek with Kooima Kooima Varilek says grains ease on profit taking and farmer selling. Cattle make more new highs for the move on hedge lifting and higher cash trade which was generally up $2 yesterday then fade.
Tomm Pfitzenmaier with Summit Commodity Brokerage says corn was pushed Thursday by strong demand with 15.5 million bushels of flash sales and weekly exports of 142 million bushels, the highest in 3 1/2 years.
Rich Nelson with Allendale, Inc. says while soybean export demand is improving if South America continues to receive rain prices could be too high.
Rich Nelson of Allendale says corn and soybeans showed resilience rallying into the close on strong demand. However, he thinks it may be exporters front loading their purchases. Cattle reverse in reaction to the McDonald’s E.coli story.
Alan Brugler, A and N Economics, LLC says grains are caught in a tug of war between farmer selling and strong cash basis levels due to strong demand.
Craig Turner with StoneX says grains saw technical buying off support areas but demand is also strong.
Allison Thompson with The Money Farm says corn and soybeans bounced off chart support and are seeing fund short covering but also strong end user buyer with another 14.2 million bushels of corn sold to Mexico.
In addition to planting soybeans early and applying fungicide, Dan Vogel puts on the appropriate amount of nutrients for the given year, instead of trying to bank nutrients or apply a two-year spread.
Dave Chatterton, Strategic Farm Marketing, says row crops are in a tug of war that could keep the markets sideways for a while.
Brad Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek says cattle were due for a slight correction and could ease their overbought status just by moving sideways. Grains are rebounding in part due to fresh flash export sales on corn and soybeans.