Wheat prices at 3-month high, corn rallies as USDA lowers supply forecasts
Wheat futures rose to the best worth since Might on Thursday, and corn futures rallied by practically 5%, after the U.S. Division of Agriculture lowered its 2021/2022 U.S. provide and yield forecasts for each of the commodities.
The USDA “stunned the markets with bigger than anticipated yield losses projected for each corn and wheat, which is being mirrored in right now’s worth exercise,” Sal Gilbertie, president and chief funding officer at Teucrium Buying and selling, informed MarketWatch.
“Anticipated extra U.S. corn and wheat provides proceed trending decrease over time, which is making the markets nervous and offering worth assist” in Thursday dealings, he stated. Immediately’s report “confirms that corn, wheat and soybean steadiness sheets will stay tight no less than by means of this 12 months’s rising season, which is an enormous change from the considerable grain market surpluses seen for a lot of the final decade.”
The USDA forecasts U.S. all wheat manufacturing at 1.697 billion bushels, down 49 million bushels from the earlier forecast. It additionally lowered its international wheat provide forecast to 1.0657 billion tons, down 16.8 million tons from its earlier forecast, citing decrease manufacturing for Russia, Canada and the US. The federal government company additionally stated it expects U.S. all wheat yield at 44.5 bushels per acre — that’s down 1.3 bushels from the July forecast.
Probably the most-active September wheat contract
WU21,
W00,
was up 20 cents, or 2.8%, at $7.47 ½ a bushel in Thursday dealings after touching a excessive at $7.62. Costs haven’t traded at ranges this excessive because the first half of Might, based on FactSet knowledge.
Wheat costs have strengthened “as a result of large drought within the Dakotas and Central Canada,” stated Gilbertie, declaring that South Dakota reportedly hit 100% drought circumstances this week on the drought monitor.
The USDA additionally lower its 2021/2022 forecast for U.S. corn manufacturing to 14.8 billion bushels, down 415 million from the July forecast.
“The season’s first survey-based corn yield forecast, at 174.6 bushels per acre, is 4.9 bushels under final month’s trend-based projection,” the USDA’s World Agricultural Provide and Demand Estimates report stated. It expects record-high corn yields in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, however stated yields in Minnesota and South Dakota are forecast under a 12 months in the past.
Probably the most-active December corn contract
CZ21,
C00,
traded at $5.84 ¼ a bushel, up 25 cents, or 4.5%. For the week, corn costs commerce round 4.8% greater, on observe for a month-to-month rise of practically 7%.
Soybean futures additionally edged greater Thursday, with the November contract
SX21,
S00,
up 18 ½ cents, or 1.4% at $13.58 ½ a bushel. The USDA forecast 2021/2022 U.S. soybean manufacturing at 4.34 billion bushels, down 66 million bushels from the earlier forecast, citing decrease soybean yields.
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