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Ethanol production recovered from last week with an increase of 2.5 million gallons at 312.5 million gallons but down 1% from last year. 106.5 million bushels were used for the week or 15.2 million bushels per day. Stocks were down at 26.6 million barrels.
 

The Philippines bought 135,000 metric tons (4.9 million bushels) of soybean cake for delivery during the 2024/2025 crop year

 

At the pause...
 
We will be getting news on the tariffs after the market closes but for now the market it playing it safe unless updates start to leak out...
 
May CORN: down 6¼ cents to $4.55½
May SOYBEANS: down 4¾ cents to $10.29½
May WHEAT: down 6½ cents to $5.34
 
A large weather front providing excessive moisture will dump heavy rain and snow from Arkansas to Ohio while the northern part of the midwest sees another front adding more moisture. Late planted corn in Brazil could start to be short moisture as the monsoon rains wind down
 
Today is "Liberation Day" as President Trump is expected to announce tariffs on a list of trading partners at 4:00 eastern. Regardless of what tariffs are implemented, we can expect to see a reaction in agriculture prices so we are ready for anything at this point
 
With soybeans dropping over 3.5 million acres for the 2025 crop and the ever-growing search for new demand, soybeans should be able to hold above $10.00 and give us a shot at better prices with a lot of weather and trade issues in the near future
 

Can't be surprised to see prices down overnight. Not with the whole world, including Americans being told how bad these tariffs are going to be for U.S. goods. At least the day has arrived and we should be able to move past this quickly. Corn being held back the most

Given where stock and usage are, old crop corn should be considerably higher. And I have no doubt prices will surge here fairly soon. But first the market has to overreact some more on tariffs, much the way it overcompensated for unknown acres and stocks leading up to Monday

All signs currently point to Mexico looking to deal not fight and that's good news for hogs. June hogs settled up $1.75 today to $97.02½

Most heavily traded grain contracts at settlement...

Up across the board. The easing following the release of acres and stock data continues...

May CORN: up 4½ cents to $4.61¾

May SOYBEANS: up 19½ cents to $10.34¼

May WHEAT: up 3½ cents to $5.40½

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