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Dec Wheat - 0.75 Higher Dec Corn - Steady to 1.00 Lower Dec Bean Oil - 0.03 Lower Nov Beans - Steady to 1.00 Higher December Crude Oil marked its low price 21 cents below the 57.50 support level, after selling off about 2.10 bucks from last night's open/high price to the low price print. support - 56.55, 54.80 resistance - 59.70, 60.50 November Soybeans marked the low price 1.00 cent below the 1002.00 support number, after selling off about 9.00 cents from the high to the low

Tidbits With the Chinese and U.S. trade relationship going down the toilet on Friday and nothing concrete since then, it was quite surprising soybean futures were 1½¢ higher yesterday while corn and wheat settled down 1 to 2¢.   An Indian trade  delegation will visit the United States this week as Washington and New Delhi push to finalize a bilateral deal by the fall deadline. India is seeking to increase U.S. natural gas purchases as part of the talks, which previously inclu

Dec Wheat - 0.25 Higher Dec Corn - 0.25 Higher to 0.75 Lower Dec Bean Oil - Steady Nov Beans - Steady to 0.75 Lower December Crude Oil marked its low 40 cents above the 57.40 support level, after selling off about 3.40 Dollars from the open/high price to the low price print. support - 57.50, 56.75 resistance - 60.00, 61.20 November Soybeans marked its low 2 ticks above the 1002.00 support number, after selling off about 22.25 cents from the high price to the low print. suppor

Tidbits Mid-day Saturday, President Trump issued this statement: Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment… The USA wants to help China, not hurt it.   Later Trump posted: China’s President Xi “just had a bad moment.”       China has softened their stance on their Friday announcement about rare earth mineral export controls. On Sunday morning, China issued this press release specifically about rare earth minerals: The re

World Free-On-Board Grain & Oilseed Prices for October 11, 2025

Dec Wheat - Steady Dec Corn - Steady Dec Bean Oil - Steady Nov Beans - 0.50 Lower Crude price - 59.50, up 0.60 S&P price - 6662.50, up...

November Crude Oil lost over 3 bucks on Friday, falling back out of the sideways channel. December support - 57.40, 54.80 December...

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 45,480, -1,279 points for the week. Crude oil  settled at $58.24, -2.45. Dollar Index  settled at 98.854, +1.14. Baltic Dry Index  (a shipping freight-cost index)  settled at 1,936, +35. Corn December futures settled at $4.13, -6¢ for the week. Basis   (Z = December; e.g. 10Z means 10¢ over Dec futures) (Futures price + Basis = Cas

Tidbits Dismissals:  Friday evening President Trump fired more than 4,200 Federal employees from the Treasury Department, U.S. Health Agency, Internal Revenue Service, and the Departments of Education, Commerce, and Homeland Security's cybersecurity division. Roughly 300,000 civil service workers have already been set to leave their jobs this year due to a downsizing campaign initiated earlier this year.   From the AgrInvest Commodities Team in Brazil: "The São Paulo market i

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Tidbits Politics and economics:  Thursday evening, the U.S. Senate passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026. It authorizes $913.9 billion in defense spending. The NDAA sets policy and funding priorities for the Department of Defense (or War), including modernization of military capabilities, support for service members, and enhancements to national security technologies. It now heads to the conference committee for reconciliatio

Tidbits Pre-hedging:  When the CBOT closes this afternoon at 1:15 PM Central Time, the combines will continue to harvest corn and beans through the weekend. Some of those bushels are going to be hauled to merchandisers and sold. Therefore, in the last 30 minutes of trading today before the CBOT closes this afternoon, merchandisers are going to sell futures contracts to hedge their estimate of how many bushels they will buy this weekend. This is called pre-hedging . Last Frida

Dec Wheat - 2.00 Higher Dec Corn - 0.50 Higher to 0.75 Lower Dec Bean Oil - 0.06 Higher Nov Beans - 0.50 Lower November Crude Oil marked...

Tidbits S&D: The USDA is not expected to release the October WASDE report tomorrow, but trade estimates were collected. The average estimate for U.S. corn production is 16.632 billion bushels with the yield of 184.8 bpa. The September WASDE report showed corn production at 16.814 billion bushels with a yield of 186.7 bpa. U.S. soybean production's average estimate is 4.267 billion bushels with a yield at 53.1 bpa, compared to 4.301 billion bushels and 53.5 bpa in September. U

Dec Wheat - Steady Dec Corn - Steady Dec Bean Oil - Steady Nov Beans - 0.50 Lower November Crude Oil marked its high price close to...

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 U.S. farming: The Trump administration was expected to announce yesterday a plan to bail out U.S. farmers, but a White House spokeswoman said: “No decisions regarding new agricultural policies have been made.” Dr. Michael Cordonnier cut his 2025 U.S. corn yield estimate by 1 bushel to 181 bpa, while the soybean yield forecast remained unchanged at 52 bpa. His bias is neutral-to-lower for both crops. U.S. farmers are cautiously optimistic about the long term but facing

Dec Wheat - 0.25 Lower Dec Corn - 0.25 Lower Dec Bean Oil - 0.10 Higher Nov Beans - 0.50 Lower November Crude Oil marked its low price 28...

Tidbits Farm aid: The Trump administration is expected to announce a plan as soon as Tuesday to bail out U.S. farmers stung by trade disputes and big harvests, with the initial outlay potentially totaling up to $15 billion. The plan, however, could be difficult to roll out as an ongoing government shutdown prevents the kind of Congressional action needed to approve such a large payout, and existing government reserves fall short. Analysts estimate U.S. corn harvest was 29% co

Dec Wheat - 0.25 Higher Dec Corn - Steady to 1.00 Lower Dec Bean Oil - 0.06 Lower Nov Beans - 0.75 Lower November Crude Oil marked its...