In the overnight session corn, soybean and wheat are all trading higher. Corn improved 3 ¼ cents, soybeans is up 3 ½ cents and wheat is trading 13 ½ cents higher this morning. The wheat market is continuing focus on the developments in Russia as yesterday’s announcement that the Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service has restricted grain export certificates for some countries.
Yesterday was a strong deviation within the grains with corn trading a few pennies lower, wheat showing strength and soybeans sliding 16 cents by the close of the session. Soybeans which traded lower on Monday following a disappointing NOPA crush report saw more disappointment in export sales after 6 major Chinese buyers bought just over a million metric tons of soybeans for delivery in 2015. Traders viewed these sales as routine considering how widely publicized the sales were. In the overnight session January soybeans went as low as $10.16.
Yesterday there was talk that China has approved a genetically modified strain of corn developed by Syngenta. This has not yet been confirmed with an official announcement, but the implications of the strain being approved could foreshadow stronger demand for corn or corn based products out of the U.S. Last week Chinese firms bought 900,000 metric tons of DDG’s from the U.S. for delivery between December and March.
Note: Friday Informa Economics will issue its 2015 acreage update.
