BASIC & RECENT MARKET INFO

Tidbits Flash sales: Yesterday morning, the USDA announced the sale of: 150,320 mts of old crop corn to unknown 136,000 mts of old crop soybeans to China Soybeans: All eyes yesterday were on January soybeans as its price traded into the 27 October gap on the daily chart by 3¼¢, reducing the gap to 4¢. January beans settled 1½¢ above the top of the gap (which is friendly), but down 5¢ on the day. Yesterday’s NOPA crush was lower than expected at 216.041 million bushels but was

Mar Wheat - 0.25 Higher Mar Corn - 0.25 Higher to 0.75 Lower Mar Bean Oil - 0.08 Lower Jan Beans - Steady February Crude Oil marked its low price 13 cents above the 56.10 support level, after selling off about 1.40 bucks from last night's high price print. support - 56.10, 55.50 resistance - 57.25, 57.60, 58.00 January Soybeans marked the low price 3.00 cents below the 1070.00 lower bracket support number, after selling down about 13.00 cents from the early morning high price

Tidbits Eduardo Vanin  reported Saturday: "Too much rain in the Center of Brazil and Parana and late planting up North. 1. Supply side is pricing a possible (harvest)  delay. A small amount of beans supply in January. The spread of Feb-Mar is still close to 20¢. The CFR is more than that. 2. Corn market is firmer for safrinha as a side effect. Probably the start of the export program will again be slow (small program for July)."   And on Sunday he added: "Last week Brazil sol

World Free-On-Board Grain & Oilseed Prices for December 13, 2025

Mar Wheat - 0.50 Higher to 0.25 Lower Mar Corn - Steady Mar Bean Oil - Steady Jan Beans - 0.75 Lower Crude price - 57.42, up 0.18 S&P price - 68.37.00, up 6.25 At 4.6 billion tons, sugarcane is the world’s largest agricultural product by volume. Brazil, India, and Thailand lead the globe in sugarcane cultivation, providing raw material for sugar and biofuels. For pertinent news and fundamental grain market information, sign-up for a 30 day, no cost, no obligation, no phone ca

It's our weekly U.S. grain market analysis and outlook for corn, soybeans and wheat, including traders positioning, basis bids tracking, crush margins, weekly news wrap-up and comments. Dow Jones  Industrial Average Index settled on Friday at 48,458, +503 points for the week. Crude oil  settled at $57.53, -2.61. Dollar Index  settled at 98.39, -0.60. Baltic Dry Index  (a shipping freight-cost index)  settled at 2,205, -522. Corn March futures settled at $4.40¾, -4¢ for the we

Tidbits Trade talks:  Trump's special trade representative, John Cole, who was in Minsk in recent days for trade talks with Belarus’ officials, announced yesterday that the U.S. is lifting sanctions on Belarusian potash. Belarus is the world’s third leading potash exporter behind Canada and Russia.     Export sales:  As we reported yesterday, on Friday morning, the USDA announced the sale of: 132,000 mts of old crop soybeans to China 93,895 mts of old crop soybean meal to Mex

January Crude Oil marked its low price 5 cents above the 57.10 support level, after selling off about 1.05 bucks from the high printed the evening before. Feb support - 56.85, 56.10 Feb resistance - 58.00, 58.85 January Bean's breakdown to new lows indicates the probability of it targeting the previous 1072.00 support number. This area is also the top of an old gap. support - 1072.00-1070.00, 1062.00 resistance - 1085.50, 1096.50 March Corn marked its low price 2 ticks above

Tidbits Flash sales: Yesterday morning, the USDA announced the sale of: 132,000 mts of soybeans to China 104,328 mts of soy meal to Mexico 250,000 mts of corn to unknown Brazil's Corn: Geraldo Isolodi is an analyst with Terra Investmentos of Brazil. He wrote his South American Crop Update earlier this month. Here are the highlights of what he had to say about the corn market:  "At the present, the corn market is supported by robust domestic demand from corn-based ethanol plan

Tidbits Flash sales: Yesterday morning, the USDA announced the sale of: 264,000 mts of old crop soybeans to China 226,000 mts of old crop beans to unknown 186,000 mts of old crop corn to unknown Crude oil: OPEC’s latest monthly report maintained a firm demand outlook due to consistent demand in China and India while reiterating that non-OPEC supply growth is set to moderate in 2026. The group also noted that OPEC+ supply management continues to anchor market stability. In its

Mar Wheat - 1.00 Higher Mar Corn - 0.25 Higher to 1.25 Lower Mar Bean Oil - Steady Jan Beans - 0.50 Higher January Crude Oil overshot the support mark by 64 cents, after selling off from slightly below yesterday's high, about 1.93 bucks to the 57.01 low price print. Price quickly rebounded past the 57.65 support level by 18 cents at 1:45 PM CDT. support - 57.35, 57.10, 55.95, resistance - 58.50, 59.00, 59.65 January Soybeans marked the high price 1.00 cent above the 1094.00 r

Tidbits Interest Rate: Members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted 9 to 3 to lower the benchmark Fed Funds rate by a quarter point to a new target range of 3.5% to 3.75%. One vote was to lower the policy rate by half percent, while two votes supported no change. Post meeting comments included that the Federal Reserve will buy $40 billion worth of U.S. treasury bills over the next 30 days to put more money in circulation; the Fed expects one rate cut in 2026 and

Mar Wheat - Steady to 0.25 Lower Mar Corn - Steady to 1.25 Lower Mar Bean Oil - 0.04 Higher to 0.02 Lower Jan Beans - Steady to 0.50 Lower January Crude Oil marked its low price 1 tick above the 57.65 support level, then rallied about 1.40 Dollars to 15 cents below the 59.20 resistance number. support - 58.40, 57.65 resistance - 59.40-59.65, 60.30 January Soybeans marked the high price 1.25 cents below the 1095.00 resistance level, after rallying about 12.25 cents from the se

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), also for inputs like 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, cha

S&D Highlights Corn:  On yesterday’s S&D, corn received the strongest boost as exports increased by 125 million bushels and the carryover was reduced by the same amount to 2,029 million bushels, a 45 day supply, down 4 days from last month and well below market expectations. As is normal for December, there were no production changes on this S&D. World corn carryout was reduced by 86 million bushels, but the days’ use needle was not moved and is still at 79 days compared to 8

Mar Wheat - 0.50 Lower Mar Corn - Steady to 1.00 Lower Mar Bean Oil - 0.03 Higher Jan Beans - Steady to 0.50 Lower January Crude Oil marked its low price 13 cents beneath the 58.25 bracket support, after selling off about 1.10 bucks from the high price printed earlier in the trade session. support - 58.10-57.95, 57.65 resistance - 59.20, 59.65 January Soybeans violated the 1091.00 support number by 6.50 cents possibly on the way to test 1072.50. The trade lost a net 6.00 cent

The numbers were overall a non-event: Friendly for corn Supportive for soybeans  Neutral wheat   CBOT 20 Minutes After Report Mar corn +3 Jan beans -7 July CBOT wheat -2 July KC wheat -2 Sept Spring wheat +1    The 2024-25 numbers are meaningless as that marketing year ended three months ago!

Tidbits December S&D  will be released by the USDA today at 10 AM Mountain Time. In past years, the USDA never changed the yields on the December report, but some analysts expect there may be a yield adjustment this year because of the government shutdown. We doubt it, but it would be logical to have an adjustment since we did not get one in October. Farm aid: USDA announced that $11 billion of “bridge money” will be paid to farmers no later than 28 February 2026 and farmers

Mar Wheat - Steady to 0.25 Lower Mar Corn - Steady to 0.75 Lower Mar Bean Oil - Steady Jan Beans - 0.25 Higher to 0.75 Lower January Crude Oil marked its low price 12 cents below the 58.80 support level, after selling off about 1.60 bucks from slightly below resistance. support - 58.35-58.25, 57.65 resistance - 59.65, 60.30 January Soybeans marked the low price 1.25 cents above the 1091.00 support number, after selling down about 15.00 cents from the morning high price print.

Сurrency & Prices We mentioned on Saturday that the Brazilian currency was sharply lower on Friday, making Brazil’s products cheaper to buy for foreign buyers compared to U.S. products. Susan Stroud of No Bull Ag reported Brazil’s currency lost 2.3% versus the dollar on Friday. Despite CBOT January soybeans settling 14¼¢ lower on Friday, Brazil’s soybeans gained about 11¢. Here is the math:   If soybeans were $11 a bushel in the U.S. on Friday and the exchange rate of Brazil’