AgResource Midday Commentary; Choppiness Prevails Awaiting USDA Outlook Forum; Oil Share Spread Shines on Firming Soyoil Basis; GFS Unchanged at midday for South America

CBOT corn, soybean and wheat futures are mixed at midday with volume thinning. Marco economic selling occurred after 8:30 AM CT CBOT reopening with AI and algo trading systems adding to their net shorts. Soyoil has bucked the bearish trend on oil share spreading and firming cash soyoil basis bids. End user pricing in cash…

AgResource Midday Commentary; CBOT Bounces in Tepid Volume Trade; Brazilian Soy Crop Estimates Hold in Big Range; Aprosoja tells Members to Hold Soybeans

CBOT grains are higher at midday with soybeans/soymeal pacing the rally. Corn and wheat futures have been pulled from their opening losses on short covering in extremely slow volume. It does not take much volume to push the markets around with South America and SE Asia on holiday. Fresh news is limited with the bears…

AgResource Midday Commentary; Soyoil Retreats Following 50 Day Moving Average Test; GFS Midday Slightly Drier for SC Brazil; Good Rains for Argentina

CBOT grain futures have traded both sides of unchanged with the grains rising while soy futures sag. The selling has come in soyoil as March futures tested its 50 day moving average. The early day rally failed with price in retreat on algo chart related selling. The soyoil price trend remains down and although the…

AgResource Midday Commentary: Feb WASDE A Tad Negative; Market Reaction Muted So Far; Soyoil Rallies in Tandem With Crude

AgResource Farm Marketing Advice for Thursday: 1/ Soybean Producers: Sell 20% of your ‘23 soybean crop at $14.19 March. 2/ Wheat Producers: Sell 25% of the ‘23 wheat crop 25% at $6.59 basis March Chicago. The USDA February Crop Report was slightly negative. WASDE reduced their estimate of the Brazilian 2024 soybean crop by 1.0…

AgResource Midday Commentary; CBOT Soymeal/Corn Sinks while Wheat/Soyoil Rallies – Spreading Gains Importance; Ukraine Corn/Argentine Soybeans to China – Rumors Abound; CONAB Report Starts Thursday

Mixed are CBOT ag markets at midday with corn/soybeans lower while the wheat market bounces. A bearish February USDA report is being built into price with needed showers to fall across Argentina crop areas in the next week. The Argy rain will help stabilize their corn/soybean crops following just over 3 weeks of acute dryness…