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Grains Mixed on Friday with Traders Eyeing Tuesday's Reports

The grains are mixed this morning with most traders eyeing the next Tuesday's reports.

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In the overnight session the grains were mixed with corn down 3/4 of a cent, soybeans down 2 3/4 of a cent and wheat up 4 cents going into this morning’s pause. Traders are eyeing two market moving reports that will be released next Tuesday the 31st which include the planting intentions report and the quarterly grain stocks report. Be prepared to monitor grain prices during the release of this report. Click here for a 14 day free trial of the Grain Hedge trading platform which delivers live quotes to your mobile phone, iPad or tablet.

Ukraine had planted 744,000 hectares of spring grain by the 24th this year which was behind last year’s pace of 1.4 million hectares. Analysts have already warned that production could fall from last year’s record due to decreased yields as a result of unfavorable weather during last fall’s planting season. UkrAgroConsult stated that 85 percent of the winter wheat is rated good to satisfactory compared to 93.4 percent last year. They also estimated that total grain production could decrease to 53 million metric tons from 59.2 million metric tons harvested in 2014.

A poll of analysts conducted by Reuters expects quarterly grain stocks to show 7.609 billion bushels of corn with a range of estimates from 7.459 to 7.8 billion bushels. Wheat stocks are expected to be showing 1.140 billion bushels with a range of analyst guesses from 1.083 to 1.2 billion bushels. Soybean stocks are expected to be around 1.346 billion bushels with a range of guesses from 1.273 to 1.404 billion bushels.

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