The CBOT ended mostly higher for the day with ethanol production data and end-user buying supporting corn futures overnight and during Wednesday morning’s trade. Corn futures traded sharply higher near mid-day as end-user buying triggered buy-stops that carried the market above key resistance levels. Fundamental input remains bullish for corn futures and today’s technical performance reflected that reality. Wheat and, to a lesser extent, soybeans were followers of the corn rally and those markets posed small gains for the day. Funds were net buyers for the day, securing some 25,000 contracts of corn, 10,000 contracts of Chicago wheat, and 4,000 contracts of soybeans. Fundamental news remains light but corn, soybean, and H...
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Weather concerns and the impacts of the war in Iran helped push wheat and corn to sharp gains Tuesday, with both markets blowing past key technical resistance levels. The weather is now coupled with geopolitical tensions that look increasingly hard to resolve, which is giving funds the perfect...
Congress is moving forward with its FY 2027 spending bills, while also still working to address FY 2026 funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which is still in a shutdown. The House Agriculture-FDA Appropriations Subcommittee marked up and passed its FY 2027 bill. The House bill prov...
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