CBOT Caught Between Macro Financial and E Midwest Crop Concerns – Which Way To Lean?

  ** AgResource Midday Market Analysis: It has been a mixed morning at the CBOT with the grains/soy trade either side of unchanged in moderate volume.   The macro factors relating to the US/world financial markets is rattling grain traders ahead of Monday’s USDA August Crop Report. World currency values and the growing prospect of future…

Cumulative Average Russian Wheat Yields About The Same As Year Ago, Implying USDA’s Projection is 2-3 MMT Too High.

Summary:   In the Jul WASDE, USDA lowered their projection for this year’s Russian wheat yield to 2.82 MT/HA (41.97 Bu/Ac).  That’s down 4.1% from the previous projection but up 3.7% more than last year’s yield of 2.72 MT/HA (40.46 Bu/Ac). The most recent Russian harvest report shows this year’s yields slightly above what they were a year ago when…