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Weekly Comments - November 28

Cash Grain Comments

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Cash grain markets continued to post gains this week with corn basis advancing 4 cents on the week while soybeans added 3 cents on average to US basis levels.

River terminals found the greatest strength this week thanks to a continued slide in barge rates. At the Illinois River, barge rates at the start of November were around $1.20 a bushel but have now fallen below 80 cents a bushel for the first time since late summer. River terminals as a group were up 7 cents a bushel. For ethanol plants, basis levels were up 3 cents a bushel as a group but there was noticeable weakness this week with about a third of the ethanol plants posting unchanged to lower basis levels. Production at ethanol plants continued to be strong, posting above last week’s marketing year high coming in at 982,000 barrels per day and sets the year-to-date total at 4.5% above last year.

For soybeans, basis levels mostly improved and the falling barge rates helped push basis levels higher there by 7 cents a bushel. For bean plants, basis levels were modestly higher advancing 3 cents a bushel. Eastern CornBelt soy plants found greater strength than those in the West.

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