Kansas City new-crop wheat meandered within a 40-cent range for two consecutive months and appeared to have little chance of a breakout of that sideways pattern. That is until just eight days ago. Since then, the rally has not paused. Ultra-short-managed money funds and...
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by Dana Mantini , Senior Market Analyst
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by Todd Hultman , DTN Lead Analyst
While the top two U.S. soybean competitors are both harvesting soybeans, November soybean prices are only showing limited bearish pressure in April. Is something more going on?
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by Todd Hultman , DTN Lead Analyst
Brazil's safrinha corn crop is about to enter its dry season, but so far, corn prices are not showing concern for smaller supplies either in the U.S. or in Brazil.
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by Dana Mantini , Senior Market Analyst
With wheat markets universally under severe pressure for the last year or more, it would be going out on a fragile limb to even think about predicting a turnaround. However, wheat in general, and KC wheat in particular, is showing some subtle signs the worst could be over.
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by Todd Hultman , DTN Lead Analyst
Just as the new highs in cash soybean prices above $16.47 ultimately lost support in June 2022, the new lows in February 2024 may suffer the same fate.
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by Dana Mantini , Senior Market Analyst
Wheat, for months, has been beaten down by aggressive Russian and Ukrainian exports. While Russian values appear to be firming a bit, there seems to be another change that could impact their ability to export. Following last weekend's Ukraine attack on a Russian oil facility and...
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by Todd Hultman , DTN Lead Analyst
December 2023 corn bounced up from a low of $4.47 on Nov. 29, 2023, and December 2024 corn bounced up from a low of $4.46 on Feb. 26, 2024. I discuss the possibility of a double-bottom in new-crop corn.
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by Dana Mantini , Senior Market Analyst
May soybeans made a nice move to end last week. Following a mostly neutral March WASDE report with respect to U.S. soybeans, May soybeans rose sharply to end the week, rising above the 20-day moving average for the first time since December. Given credit for the strength...
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by Todd Hultman , DTN Lead Analyst
Spot soybean oil prices are testing long-term support near 45 cents at a time when the moods for corn, soybean and wheat prices remain bearish. Can the half-off sale in bean oil generate demand a second time?
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by Dana Mantini , Senior Market Analyst
Corn has plummeted in the last several weeks with speculative funds adding to what is already a record net-short position in corn. Even as corn export sales are running ahead of USDA's projection and South American production estimates are falling below those of the USDA...
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by Todd Hultman , DTN Lead Analyst
Spot corn prices experienced a similar sharp drop in 2013 and 2014, giving us a hint of what to look for in 2024.
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by Dana Mantini , Senior Market Analyst
Soybean oil, along with soybeans and soymeal, has been in a downtrending pattern since July 2023. In the past week, nearby bean oil futures closed higher Monday through Thursday before ending the streak with a setback Friday. However, for the week, both March and May bean oil...
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by Todd Hultman , DTN Lead Analyst
July contracts of corn and soybeans are off to a bearish start in 2024 and, although cheap, have yet to find support.
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by Dana Mantini , Senior Market Analyst
For the first time since June, March soybean futures broke under the $12.00 level. Even though there is plenty of growing weather yet to endure in Argentina, the Brazilian soy harvest is likely 10% to 11% done as of Monday. Although early yields have disappointed, Brazil's soybean...
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by Todd Hultman , DTN Lead Analyst
The recent drop in U.S. soybean meal prices is one view of a market that looks more bearish worldwide.
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by Dana Mantini , Senior Market Analyst
With the change in Brazil's weather pattern and the prospect for an Argentine soybean crop to be twice as large as a year ago, we have seen March soybean meal plunge as much as $92 per ton in 60 days. At the end of the week, we saw March soymeal match the season low, and...
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by Todd Hultman , DTN Lead Analyst
For six months, bulls and bears in soybeans have been in a standoff, weighing the anticipation of tight U.S. supplies in 2023-24 versus another year of big production from South America. In the first days of January, the bears won.
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by Dana Mantini , Senior Market Analyst
After a weekend which saw good rains fall over some of the driest, major-producing regions of Brazil, spot March soybeans gapped more than 6 cents from the Friday low, plunging on ideas that weekend rains and the projection of more to come could still result in another...
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by Todd Hultman , DTN Lead Analyst
On Monday, Dec. 18, U.S. Customs closed two rail lines into Mexico and markets took note. The prices of two important feeds for Mexico's livestock industry were briefly affected in different ways.
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by Dana Mantini , Senior Market Analyst
In the past few weeks, Chicago wheat has reacted to the purchase of over 41 mb of U.S. soft red winter wheat, rising for eight straight days before correcting. The last two days of the week, Chicago March finished strong, with some subtle signs the trend might continue.
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