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Market Commentary

The CBOT opened on a high note with corn, wheat, and the entire soy complex moving strongly into positive territory. By afternoon, however, lackluster reports from the USDA Outlook Forum and profit taking ahead of the weekend pulled everything but soyoil lower and to a negative close. Traders were bull spreading soyoil/soymeal and bear spreading wheat/corn this afternoon.  The USDA’s Ag Outlook Forum is wrapping up today and failed to offer the commodity markets much excitement. Yesterday’s acreage announcements were bullish soybeans and bearish corn while the release of today’s more detailed grain and oilseed balance sheets (detailed by commodity below) continued that trend with bullish interpretations for soybeans...

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