After several days of adding war premiums and one day before a USDA WASDE report, the market was mostly uneventful today. Volume was up in corn, soybeans and HRW, but only when viewed against an overall slower week. Corn, wheat, and soybeans all three dipped yesterday after several days of upward momentum and while soybeans recovered momentum today and corn followed, wheat continued to shed value.
Soybeans were bolstered by a CONAB report that dropped Brazilian output another 3 MMT. The agency added a little over 3 MMT to its estimate for Brazil’s corn crop, with most of the increase for the safrinha crop that has not yet been harvested.
The institutional roll forward for contracts from May into July has begun but the fund...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
