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Dec Wheat - Steady to 1.25 Lower Dec Corn - Steady to 1.25 Lower Dec Bean Oil - 0.08 Higher Nov Beans - Steady to 1.75 Lower Crude price...

Tidbits Soybean crush:  The USDA July soybean crush report will be issued tomorrow. It is expected to be up 7.2% from a year ago at 207.2 million bushels, the largest July crush on record and 5th largest of any month.   India-Pakistan:  More than a million people in Pakistan have been displaced in the Punjab province as the worst flooding there in four decades caused havoc in hundreds of villages and submerged vital grains crops. Torrential monsoon rain and neighboring India'

World Free-On-Board Grain & Oilseed Prices for August 30, 2025

It's our weekly US grain market prices analysis and outlook for corn, soybeans and wheat. Dow Jones  Industrial Average Index settled on Friday at 45,545, -87 points for the week. Crude oil  settled at $64.01, +0.24. Dollar Index  settled at 97.855, +0.13. Baltic Dry Index  (a shipping freight-cost index)  settled at 2,025, +81. Corn December futures settled at $4.20¼, +32¢ for the week. Basis   (Z = December; e.g. 10Z means 10¢ over Dec futures) (Futures price + Basis = Cash

Tidbits Wheat export:  This wheat marketing year began 1 June. Total export wheat sales for this marketing year stand at 6.5 million mts, up from 5 million mts last year at this point. By wheat class, HRW sales are 2.6 million mts, up from 1.1 million last year, white wheat at 1.3 million mts, up from 1.2 million last year, and SRW export sales at 857,000 mts, up from 804,000 mts last year.   Corn:  A South Dakota client said yesterday he has 21 fields of corn and 16 of them

October Crude Oil marked it's high and low in between the resistance and support levels, while losing 63 cents down to 63.97 for the day,...

Tidbits Yesterday was the last trading day of the week, the month, and the marketing year for corn and soybeans. Unusual things can happen in a market on such days and so it was yesterday!   Corn  was sharply higher yesterday without any new news. We all know that yields will most likely come down in the coming months, corn and wheat exports are great and bean exports are great considering China is not buying any U.S. beans, ethanol crush is good, dry weather and disease will

Tidbits Monday is 1 September, Labor Day. After trade is complete today, no ag commodities will trade until Monday evening. Crude oil will trade normal hours Sunday evening through Monday with a trade date listed as 2 September. Therefore, Monday and Tuesday crude oil trading will both be recorded as one trading day, Tuesday 2 September. The U.S. GDP grew at a 3.3% annualized rate in Q2, up from the 3% estimate, helped by stronger consumer spending and a notable upgrade in bu

Dec Wheat - Steady to 1.50 Higher Dec Corn - 1.00 Higher to 1.00 Lower Dec Bean Oil - 0.07 Lower Nov Beans - Steady to 1.25 Lower October...

Tidbits All September grain futures  positions and September basis contracts must be priced or rolled today before the close. As expected, CBOT contracts were weak yesterday as they usually are a few days before the first notice day for deliveries on futures contracts, which is Friday. Today is a toss-up as far as traditional up or down price day, but first notice day is usually an up day. The Hard Red Winter Wheat futures market made new contract lows each of the past two da

Dec Wheat - 0.75 Higher to 0.50 Lower Dec Corn - 0.25 Higher to 1.00 Lower Dec Bean Oil - Steady Nov Beans - Steady to 0.75 Higher...

Grain market summary of price outlook, seasonal situation, fundamental & technical analysis with our recommendations for corn , soybeans and wheat (Soft Red Winter, Hard Red Winter & Spring), fuel and fertilizer for past week Wednesday to Tuesday. Read about our approach to this report here . We provide three different marketing plans (in order of decreasing our preference). The marketing decision is yours to make, obviously you can mix those plans, change the sales size or

Tidbits A Chinese commerce  minister is scheduled to visit the U.S. and talk to trade deputies. While this is not part of the ongoing negotiations, it is seen as a goodwill gesture. The human case of screwworm  reported this week by U.S. health officials is the country's only one so far this year and poses no risk to the farm sector, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official said on Tuesday. Crude oil was lower yesterday, despite the Ukraine conflict and its impact on Russian

Dec Wheat - 0.75 Lower Dec Corn - 0.25 Lower Dec Bean Oil - 0.11 Lower Nov Beans - 0.75 Lower October Crude Oil marked it's low 37 cents...

Tidbits Cattle and feeder cattle  were lower yesterday after a report this weekend of the first human screwworm case in the U.S. which was found in Maryland. The person had just returned from El Salvador. The Fed: Yesterday President Trump fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook because she claimed two homes were her main residence on her mortgage applications. Wheat: Seven of the last ten years, soft red winter December wheat futures made its low in the last half of August

Dec Wheat - 0.25 Lower Dec Corn - 0.50 Higher to 0.50 Lower Dec Bean Oil - 0.04 Lower Nov Beans - 0.25 Higher tp 0.75 Lower October Crude...

Tidbits Russia-Ukraine: On Sunday, Ukraine launched a drone attack on one of Russia’s largest nuclear reactors, forcing a sharp decline in the capacity of the reactor and sparking a huge blaze at the major Ust-Luga fuel export terminal, Russian officials said.   Earlier Ukraine also attacked the "Druzhba" (friendship) oil pipeline, which supplies oil to Hungary and Slovakia, causing supplies to be suspended. President Trump wrote to Hungarian President Orban that he was "very

World Free-On-Board Grain & Oilseed Prices for August 23, 2025

Sep Wheat - Steady to 0.75 Higher Dec Corn - Steady to 1.00 Higher Dec Bean Oil - Steady Nov Beans - 0.25 to 1.25 Lower Crude price -...

It's our weekly US grain market prices analysis and outlook for corn, soybeans and wheat. Dow Jones  Industrial Average Index settled on Friday at 45,632, +686 points for the week. Crude oil  settled at $63.77, +0.63. Dollar Index  settled at 97.73, -0.11. Baltic Dry Index  (a shipping freight-cost index)  settled at 1,944, -100. Corn September futures  settled at $3.88¼, +4½¢ for the week. December futures settled at $4.11½, +6¼¢ for the week. Basis   (U = September; e.g. 10