Market Commentary

Daily Comments

The current advance that the grain/soy complex has put together is the largest it has experienced since late November/early December.  The group has pushed through its 21-day moving average and has reached the 34-day moving average for the first time since the end of last year.  While all of this…

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Conab released updated production figures for Brazil overnight and took another pretty solid slice from their soybean estimate.  They are now projecting a crop totaling 146.858 MMT, which is down from 149.403.  This brings them much closer to Dr. Cordonnier’s estimate of 145 MMT than the USDA at 156 MMT….

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Daily Comments

There was certainly nothing astounding in the USDA reports released last Friday.  I will point out that the global ending stock for corn, wheat and beans were all reduced and came in at or below trade estimates.  While none would be deemed “rally worthy,” it beats the alternative. If you…

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I am traveling this week, so daily comments will be briefer than usual. If we were to ignore the Chicago wheat market, this would have been one of the most solid weekly gains for the grain/soy markets in some time.  If we closed right now, for the week, May corn…

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I am traveling this week, so daily comments will be briefer than usual. Corn export sales during the week ending the 29th of February improved 3% to a net 1,109,600 MT or 43.7 million bushels.  Japan moved to the top of the list with purchases of 498.9k MT, followed by…

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