With the closure yesterday and overnight because of New Year’s Day, CME grain futures markets opened for the first post-holiday trading session at 9:30 a.m. (EST) this morning. The long weekend’s primary weather story was the extremely cold temperatures that blanketed the Midwest and much of the Mid-South as well as a large majority of the Plains. That and dry conditions have likely resulted in some winterkill for both HRW and SRW, but the amount cannot be assessed until the wheat starts to green up after dormancy. However, the threat was enough to set wheat up as the day’s futures market leader. Besides that influence, the soy complex also responded to forecasts of only limited rainfall over Argentine crop areas for the n...