In the overnight session the grains were mixed with December corn up 1 cent, November soybeans down ¼ cent and December Chicago Wheat up 2 ¼ cents. Scattered rains helped southern Minnesota, northwest Iowa, Indiana and Michigan yesterday with more precipitation expected today. The heaviest rains are expected to fall this evening in the Dakotas and Minnesota. The rain is coming at a time where it will have marginal benefit to the overall corn and soybean crop. Freeze risks remain low over the next two weeks.
The latest crop progress report showed that corn is 7 percent harvested compared to a four year average of 11 percent. Corn conditions held steady in all categories with 62 percent of the crop rated good-to-excellent. Soybeans were 4 percent harvested with a good-to-excellent rating of 59 which was down 1 point from last week.
There were a couple international tenders announced recently. The first was a South Korean tender to purchase up to 70,000 metric tons of corn from optional origins and the second being Egypt’s GASC to buy an unspecified amount of wheat for shipment between Oct 21st-31.
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