Hedge Plus Reports

Selected grain contracts at settlement...

A round of short covering ahead of tomorrow's WASDE nearly had the grain markets all green today after a multi week selloff...

July CORN: down ½ cent to $4.19

July SOYBEANS: up 9¼ cents to $11.23

July WHEAT: up 2¼ cents to $5.87½

A reprieve for hogs today, though not one that is anticipated to have much staying power...

July hogs added 70 cents to end up at $96.85

U.S. weekly ethanol production fell slightly below expectations, utilizing 109 million bushels of corn over the weekly period. The 15.5 million bushels used per day fell shy of the 16 mb needed to reach the USDA forecast of 5.6 billion for the marketing year