Ag Market View

Soyoil traded higher. Soybeans, soymeal, corn and wheat traded lower. US stocks were marginally lower. US Dollar was lower. US Crude was unchanged. Gold was higher today.

SOYBEANS

Soybean market continues to trade with news both positive and negative. Fact USDA dropped weekly US soybean crop rating plus another day in which USDA announced another US soybean sale to China offered support. Fact weekly US soybean exports were lower than expected and Pro Farmer SD and OH soybean pod count was higher than last year and average weighed on prices. Key will be US weather next week. Overnight American and Canadian weather models hinted of increases chances for rains next week across a broad area of the US Midwest. Europe model was drier. Noon American model is not as wet. Higher Malaysian palmoil prices helped soyoil gain on soymeal. Price Bears still feel soybean and soymeal futures will trend lower into the fall US harvest. Managed funds were small net sellers of soybean and soymeal and buyers of soyoil. This week funds have added to their net soybean and soyoil long and reduced their soymeal short. Some also felt lower soybean traded today could be due to an overbought technical position. 

CORN

Corn futures traded lower. Corn found support recently due to talk of lower US 2020 crop. Damaging Wind storm with straight line winds in excess of 100 mph knocked down portions of the Iowa record corn crop. Farmers and agronomist are all trying to figure just how many bushels Iowa loss due to the storm. Most estimate 200-300 mil bu. Pro Farmer crop tour will survey West Iowa on Wednesday and the rest of Iowa on Thursday. USDA said they will resurvey Iowa farmers 2020 acres for the September report. USDA dropped Iowa corn crop rating this week 10 pct to 59 pct good/ex. Pro Farmer tour participant estimated SD 2020 corn yield near a record 179.2 versus their estimate last year of 142.0 and USDA August guess of 167.0. Pro Farmer tour participant estimated OH 2020 corn yield near 167.7 versus their estimate last year of 140.8 and USDA August guess of 175.0. OH is the lowest key Midwest rated corn state. Tour will survey IN and NE today. One crop watcher estimated US corn yield still near 180.0. This was below USDA August guess but still above trend. They did drop corn acres 500 thousand from USDA. USDA announced 195 mt US 2020/21 corn sold to China and 130 mt US 2020/21 corn sold to unknown. This should bring China US total to 6 mmt. 

WHEAT

Chicago and KC wheat futures traded lower. Both markets have been supported by higher French wheat futures. That market may have been supported by talk of Increase Russia buying of French wheat. Paris wheat futures were lower overnight. Still, talk of higher Russia, Canada and Australia crop and fact USDA increased this week’s US spring wheat crop ratings offered resistance. Dryness in Argentina may be the only area of concern for 2021 World wheat supplies. Weekly US wheat exports were less than expected. There is concern that Covid could reduce World wheat trade. Covid also could keep US/World economies from growing and reduce demand. This could offset the lower US Dollar. Normally a lower US Dollar tends to help US exports. There is some concern that the lower US Dollar and higher Gold trade may be an indicator of lower US economy. US flour users continue to buy hand to mouth given the uncertainty of future demand especially in the restaurant industry.

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