The CBOT was mostly higher to start the week with unexpected hail and rain damage to India’s wheat crop lifting world wheat markets while corn and soybeans followed through on last week’s supportive technical trade. Funds were net buyers across the CBOT for the day despite holding a fresh record short in soybeans as of Friday’s CFTC report and having barely pared back their corn short from its recent record. One factor driving some of the short covering is the looming 8 March WASDE report from USDA, which will include an update on export demand and South American crop prospects, and possibly downward revisions to U.S. biodiesel demand for soyoil. Traders are hesitant to be overly short heading into the report as the USDA s...