The wheat complex was pressured lower on Thursday, with the US dollar index hitting a 1 year high, up 414 points. Chicago SRW futures were down 1 ½ to 3 3/4 cents across the board at the close. KC HRW contracts closed with losses of 5 to 6 1/4 cents....

Corn prices appeared to have finally found a bottom from the summer sell-off. Speculators were short the market in record numbers until late August, when they began buying back contracts, convincing some that the harvest seasonal low may be in. Then, exports increased in the last few weeks, and prices rallied more. While the bearish fundamentals of 1.9 billion carry-out and the massive amount of unpriced corn still linger, there isn’t much hope for a significant price rally yet.

With a belief, not to be confused with fact, that a portion of the buying that has lifted the feeder cattle index, causing a flurry of activity in feeder cattle futures, is due to the desire to own cattle to place on wheat.

Corn is facing some midday pressure on Thursday as contracts are down 3 to 4 cents at midday. The national average Cash Corn price from cmdtyView was down 3 1/4 cents at $4.03 1/2 per bu. Export Sales data from this morning showed a total of 1.495 MMT of 2024/25...

The three wheat markets are heading lower so far on Thursday, with the US dollar index hitting a 1 year high. Chicago SRW futures are down 1 to 2 cents across the nearbys. KC HRW contracts are closing with losses of 5 to 6 cents at midday. MPLS spring wheat...

Soybeans are failing to get much upside reaction to the export business announced this morning or the better than expected Export Sales report. Futures are down 12 to 14 cents at midday an near the intraday lows. CmdtyView’s national front month Cash Bean price is down 12 1/4 cents at...

Soybeans are showing fractional to 1 cent losses across mots contracts on Thursday morning. They continued to see weakness on Wednesday as contracts posted losses of 4 ½ to 19 ¼ cents. CmdtyView’s national front month Cash Bean price was down 7 1/12 cents at $9.39. Soymeal futures were up...

Corn futures are showing some slight losses to kick off the Thursday trade. The corn market rallied off early session lows on Wednesday, with contracts closing the day up 1 1/4 to 3 cents. Near record ethanol output and continued spillover strength in wheat helped. Preliminary open interest showed net...

Wheat is trading with gains across the three markets so far on Thursday morning. The complex continued to extend higher on Wednesday as the Black Sea tensions heightened, with all three markets closing higher. Chicago SRW futures were up 2 3/4 to 5 cents across the board at the close....

Corn futures are showing some slight losses to kick off the Thursday trade. The corn market rallied off early session lows on Wednesday, with contracts closing the day up 1 1/4 to 3 cents. Near record ethanol output and continued spillover strength in wheat helped. Preliminary open interest showed net...

Soybeans are showing fractional to 1 cent losses across mots contracts on Thursday morning. They continued to see weakness on Wednesday as contracts posted losses of 4 ½ to 19 ¼ cents. CmdtyView’s national front month Cash Bean price was down 7 1/12 cents at $9.39. Soymeal futures were up...

KC Wheat Examined