Grains Moved Lower Overnight

Grains moved lower yet again overnight with soybeans continuing their sell-off reaching their lowest mark since the May 10 crop report. In outside markets, the US dollar was stronger as was equity futures and crude oil.

After the close on Monday, USDA released their weekly crop progress report showing a big jump in soybean plantings from 36% last week to 56% this week. Corn planting looked to be mostly wrapped up with 86% of the crop planted. And winter wheat conditions held steady at 62% good-to-excellent versus last week. Spring wheat is also faring well at 76% good-to-excellent versus last year of 69%. Indiana and Ohio still lagging on planting. For corn, Indiana is 62 percent planted (vs 5-year avg of 77 pct) and Ohio reaches 51 pct (vs 5-year avg of 66 pct).

In export news on Monday, weekly inspections from USDA showed sub-par movement for soybeans while corn and wheat were in-line with expectations. With only a few weeks left in the wheat marketing year it seems likely final year exports will come up 20 to 30 MB shy of USDA’s forecast. Corn is also lagging but the pace has been brisk of late and with 3 months left in the marketing year will likely meet USDA’s benchmark.

Overnight, Taiwan's maize industry procurement association MFIG has purchased 65,000 MT of corn to be sourced from the United States in an international tender which closed on Tuesday, European traders said. The tender had sought corn from either the United States, Brazil, Argentina or South Africa. This morning USDA announced a 140,000 MT of soybeans for new-crop to unknown destinations. That makes two days in a row of new-crop bean deals.

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