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04/03/2026

Corn Futures finish nearly ten cents lower for the short week, while a Early boost from energy strength failed to hold up the Soybeans. Markets Closed for Easter. Everyone have a blessed and enjoyable Easter weekend.

WEEK ENDING NEWS:
-- The corn market looked primed for gains early yesterday, but struggled to maintain positive momentum as the day unfolded. Old crop corn positions finished up to two cents lower, while later-dated new crop positions held steady. For the holiday-shortened week, corn closed nearly ten cents lower.
-- Market positioning was a major focus heading into a three day weekend amid heightened geopolitical tensions. May Crude Oil did its darndest to give corn a boost with ~$10/bbl gains
-- The soybean market had a low volume, two-sided trade.
-- Beans were supported early on by the strength in the energy markets but that influence waned. May beans settled a nickel lower while the November contract lost 1.5 cents. For the week, beans gained 4.25 cents (SX +10), meal lost a tick, and oil gained 1.53 pts. The April WASDE is a week from today.
-- In the product trade, soybean oil rallied sharply by 1.83 pts to establish a new contract settlement high; meanwhile meal was pressured $3 lower.
-- Elsewhere, livestock/milk markets ended the week mostly higher (excepting small losses in hogs). Big week for fat cattle, which soared more than $7 on the week and is within a few bucks of record highs. The next few days will be wet across the U.S. Midwest, but forecasts promise a warm-up after, which should help prime the spring planting pump.
-- The Presidents address to the nation did little to reassure anyone of a plan to end the war. The address provided little to no new information and the markets reacted overnight with oil jumping higher.
-- Show lists declined in all regions. The small slaughter volume accompanied by smaller show lists presents a conflict with estimates of marketing numbers garnered from government cattle on feed numbers.
-- Cash sales for last week moved higher on Friday. Sales for the week featured live sales in the north from $235 Thursday to $240 late Friday. Most dressed sales were at $372. In the south cattle traded Friday evening for $238 with a few low end cattle on Thursday at $234.
-- This past weeks slaughter was 520,000 head - 17,000 over the previous week, and a whopping 89,000 under last year. The slaughter comparison reached a record spread year to year and brings into question some data regarding the on feed numbers.
-- The markets are closed today for the Good Friday and the Easter Holiday; we will reopen normally on Sunday evening for Monday's trade. Happy Easter to everyone.

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11/10/2025

Midmorning Markets:

Corn 2 higher @ $4.30.

Soybeans 11 Higher @ $11.13.

Wheat 6 Higher @ $5.34.

Cotton $.55 Higher @ $64.17.

Dow 9 Points Higher.

Crude $.21 Lower @ $59.56.

Live Cattle $2.48 Higher @ $223.75.

Feeder Cattle $6.83 Higher @ $333.10.

Hogs $1.30 Higher @ $80.70.

OVERNIGHT NEWS

-- Overnight, corn futures trended modestly better, finishing 1-2 cents higher by the morning pause. There is not much grain news around to start, but many markets are buzzing amid a potential breakthrough in the federal gov’t shutdown (officially the longest such shutdown on record). U.S. equities are up 1%, precious metals are on a tear, and oil plus the US Dollar are near-steady. It is WASDE week, and positioning for that event will likely influence trade up until its release.

-- Safras Mercado analysts Monday projected the 25/26 Brazil Corn crop production could reach 143.56 mln mt up from the previous forecast at 142.49 mln mt

-- For the 24/25 crop year ending September, China's Ag Ministry estimated Corn imports at 1.83 mln mt in their monthly crop report; they left their 25/26 MY export estimate unchanged. They projected next season's 25/26 Corn production at 300 mln mt.

-- AgRural analysts Monday estimated Brazil's 25/26 MY first season Corn planting progress at 72% complete

-- AgRural analysts Monday estimated Brazil's 25/26 MY soybean planting progress at 61% complete

-- Late Sunday night, the US Senate passed a measure seeking to reopen the US federal government. The vote was a procedural one to move a House of Rep passed bill that includes three full year appropriations bills and can be amended to fund the US federal government through January 30, 2026. If the amended bill passes the Senate, then goes back to the House and eventually the President's desk, but that could take several days.

The AG Center Cattle Report for Nov 09 2025

THE MARKETS
-- The downward drift of futures ended on Friday when futures made a paltry gain following a $30 CWT. crash since October 17. The entire industry will take a weekend to absorb the reaction of the President on Truth Social Friday when he called on the Justice Department to carry forth an investigation of the beef processors. SEE THIS WEEKS EDITORIAL

-- Packers took advantage of massive moves in futures to secure next weeks slaughter needs at steady to softer prices. Cattle traded at $232 in Texas and Kansas - $3-4 weaker. Northern cattle owners accepted $360 dressed and $230 live - steady with the previous week. A few cattle in Iowa traded for $228. Many of those northern sales are moving south where numbers are the shortest.

CATTLE FUTURES
-- Live cattle gained $2-3 to close the week. The daily volatility this past week saw daily trading ranges beyond any ever demonstrated by the cattle contracts. The interplay between live and feeder contracts, fundamentals and emotions, and reason left a gap in rational analysis.

REPLACEMENT MARKETS

-- Feeder futures have made a large adjustment downward in price. Many heavier replacement cattle have followed the futures down, but many of the lighter offerings have stubbornly refused to follow. Some lightweight calves are reaching back towards record levels. On the fundamental side, auction market receipts are down as country movement of cattle - leading to sharp reductions in placements. There is little evidence of reaching or passing the low point in replacement numbers.

-- Occupancy levels are falling in all regions but especially in Texas. The purchase of a 800 # steer on todays market given todays feed cost would result in a $250 loss if the animals were hedged. Some operators would prefer to look at an empty pen. Some bankers would agree. Those who do choose to place cattle on feed, must gamble with equity on a rise in prices by next year when the cattle will sell.

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06/05/2025

Subject: South Korea is in for corn, will this turn the market higher like last time? Weekly bean sales continue to dwindle, product sales cool off too.
Time Sent: 06/05/2025 10:30 AM
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THE NEWS INFORMATION FOR TODAYS MARKET UPDATE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE QT NEWS STAFF. QT NEWS IS YOUR ONLY REAL-TIME NEWS SOURCE WITHIN THE MARKETPLACE TODAY.

-- Overnight, the corn market was quietly steady/better, finishing 1-3 cents higher by the biscuit break. Early news is mostly of the export variety. The weekly report was ‘just okay’, barely clearing the 1 million metric ton (mmt) bar despite some pre-announced business.
-- Overnight grain markets were mixed with wheat and corn firmer and the soy complex weaker. July beans are 3 cents lower while the new crop November futures are off by 2 cents.
-- In the product trade, oil and meal are both slightly lower to start the day. A negative influence from a weaker global veg oil trade is somewhat offset by a recovery in the heating oil market. Export sales of meal and oil were down from their recent volumes.
*****AgCenter Cattle Market Report & Analysis
THE MARKETS
-- Finding a price point in the north will be the first order of business for the balance of the week. Few sales in the north have not defined a market. The first indications of cash prices this week were in Texas where the online exchange featured live sales from $124-$126 — $2-3 higher. This stimulated a race to buy ending with larger volumes of cattle trading in the south, both in Kansas and Texas at $228 — $5 higher than last week.
-- This past week’s slaughter is one of the smallest Memorial Day week slaughter on record, if not the smallest. Packers faced with declining supplies of fed cattle pulled down the slaughter number to 477,000 — 93,000 under last week and down 62,000 from last year’s holiday week. There is a widespread feeling within the industry and futures traders that the most recent surge in cattle prices is not sustainable. These price increases in live cattle will not immediately be felt in the grocery store or restaurant menus but as pricing decisions occur in the next few weeks, more definition regarding the impact to consumer spending will be tested.
-- CATTLE FUTURES. Futures are having a difficult time of keeping up with the rise in cash prices. For futures to rise $2 when cash jumps $5, the discount increases by $3. The battle between the reality that exists in the cash markets and the doubt expressed in the futures market is not over. Futures prices currently are selling $10 under sales this week in the south and maybe double that number when the week has concluded with sales in the north.
-- The discount in the deferred contracts is pricing in a plant closure. No one knows what plant will close, or the size of the plant, or when it will close. When a plant does close, it will allow packers to reduce the red ink that has been spilling most of this year. Live cattle operators will lose some of the benefit of too much processing capacity and the losses at the plants that subsidized gains in margin at the feedlot level.

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