Jon Scheve, Superior Feed Ingredients, says grain markets extended gains early Tuesday. He thinks the rally in grains may be more than just technical buying or a recovery rally.

DuWayne Bosse, Bolt Marketing, says most of the bounce in the grain markets was short covering or short profit taking.

Brad Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek, says cattle futures are in recovery mode for a second day after scoring key weekly reversals last week on the charts, a bearish sign of a possible top. Corn is also trying to bounce after new lows for the year in the December contract.

Shawn Hackett, Hackett Financial Advisors, says grain and cotton markets all ended lower on Friday and for the week. He provides several reasons he thinks the market participants are too bearish compared to the fundamentals.

Scott Varilek, Kooima Kooima Varilek, says after two ugly down days in cattle futures the markets are trying to recover and so is the soybean market.

Jeff Hoogendoorn, Professional Ag Marketing, says the sell off in bean oil was tied to unconfirmed rumors the draft proposal on the Renewable Volume Obligations (RVO) for bio-mass based diesel were sent to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) with lower than expected volumes.

Soybeans are down with soybean oil which touched limit down overnight on unconfirmed rumors EPA would setting RVO levels for biomass based diesel below anticipated levels.

“China and Brazil are getting together. They’re going to build infrastructure, and they’re going to make SAF and they’re going to build railroads, and it’s not good for us and our future. That’s why we need new markets,” says Iowa farmer Tim Burrack.

The newly released stocks-to-use ratios for corn and soybeans show we can expect the markets to be responsive to any threat to yields this summer.

Ted Seifried, Zaner Ag Hedge, says soybeans have been seeing continued strength off the bullish WASDE numbers allowing it to clear some technical objectives. But the market needs other fundamental factors to come together to clear $11.