USDA WASDE Report Out Today at 11 CST

Grains Were Up in the Overnight Session

October 2, 2020

In the overnight session December corn up ¼ cent, November soybeans is up 4 ¾ cents and December wheat is up 1 ¼ cent. Traders have been positioning before the August WASDE report which is scheduled for release at 11 CST.

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Brazil’s agricultural statistics agency released its 16/17 corn and soybean forecast which showed a revision higher for both. Brazil’s 16/17 corn crop forecast increased 1.2 MMT to 97.2 while their soybean crop was revised only slightly, up .08 MMT to 114 in the same marketing year.

Ethanol production increased by 10 thousand BPD to 1.012 million BPD according to the EIA report on Wednesday. Despite the increase, weekly ethanol production was down nearly 1 percent compared to the same week last year. With July ethanol production numbers in the books, we will need to see roughly a 6 percent increase in ethanol production throughout the remainder of the marketing season to meet the USDA’s corn used for ethanol projection. Although this is possible, it is unlikely and may be reason enough to see the USDA revise their ethanol forecasts lower on the old crop balance sheet in today’s report.

Ethanol stocks increased to 21.347 million barrels from 20.852 million barrels last week. Although ethanol stocks have seen a drawdown since March when they peaked for the year, they remain at record highs when comparing on a same week basis.

Old crop export sales for both corn and soybeans missed expectations with soybeans actually recording a marketing year low, down 83 percent from the prior four week average. All new crop sales were strong however, with corn and soybeans both beating analyst expectations.

Weekly Export Sales-