Based on futures’ price action late last week and early this week, one would be expecting funds to have been net sellers in the major ag commodities, and that’s exactly what happened. Funds expanded their short soybean position by some 30,000 contracts, making it a new five-year low for this week and nearly a record low for the past five years. Additionally, funds were strong net sellers of soyoil and quickly moved from a small net short to their biggest short since early March and a new five-year low. The only bullish action in the soy complex was in soymeal, where managed money traders continue pare back shorts and cut that position in half last week. In the grains, funds expanded their corn and KC and Chicago wheat shorts and...

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