Corn Jul '26 (ZCN26)
Corn Futures Market News and Commentary
Corn prices are trading with 1 to 2 ½ cent losses on Friday morning as traders look to round out the week. Futures saw losses on Thursday, with contracts down 1 ½ to 3 ¼ cents.  Open interest was down 12,902 contracts on Thursday, mainly in the May, dropping 41,575 contracts. Some were rolling to July, up 28,073 contracts. The CmdtyView national average Cash Corn price was down 3 cents at $4.05 1/2.Â
Export Sales data from Thursday morning showed 1.36 MMT in old crop corn sales for the week of April 2. That was up 18.4% from last week and 73.3% above the same week last year. Japan was the top buyer of 632,400 MT, with 202,500 MT sold to Mexico. New crop sales were tallied at 11,430 MT, all to Mexico.
The USDA WASDE update showed the US corn ending stocks projection left at 2.127 bbu as the trade had suspected. The only major change was via the average cash price, up a nickel to $4.15. World ending stocks were raised by 2.06 MMT to 294.81 MMT, mainly due to a hike in Indi... Read more
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Corn prices are trading with 1 to 2 ½ cent losses on Friday morning as traders look to round out the week. Futures saw losses on Thursday, with contracts...
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Lean hog futures saw front month April up 47 cents ahead of next week’s expiration, as other contracts were down 25 to 77 cents. Open interest was down...
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Consider buying a put option on July cotton futures.
