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Grains Set To Open Lower in Last Day of 2014

The grains are seeing some selling in the overnight as we move into the last trade day of 2014.

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In the overnight session corn slipped ¾ of a penny, soybeans fell 5 ¼ cents and wheat fell 3 cents. Today is First Notice day for soybeans, soymeal and soyoil. First day deliveries included 20 contracts of soybeans, no soymeal and 1,143 contracts of soyoil which was well above expectations.

Last night, temperatures fell to as low as -20 in parts of the northwest plains with 1/3 of the winter wheat belt subject to the freezing temperatures. With only 1-3 inches of snow cover, winterkill damage has certainly occurred. Temperatures should ease over the next few days but by late weekend more low temperatures will put the winter wheat crop at risk throughout Nebraska and northern Kansas.

South Korea is disinfecting farms around the country in an effort to try to contain the spread of Foot-and-mouth disease and bird flu. Foot-and-mouth disease had been confirmed in the center of the country but a recent case just 30 miles out of Seoul has the country on alert.

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