Wheat futures are trading with losses at Tuesday’s midday, though the market has pulled off the early session lows. Chicago SRW futures are still down 7 to 8 cents at the midday part of the session. KC HRW futures are 5 to 6 cents lower on Tuesday. MPLS spring wheat is trading with 8 to 10 cents in the red.
With the national Crop Progress report starting on a weekly basis in April, we still have a few individual state crop reports. Kansas will be out on a weekly basis starting next week, with Texas ratings at 37% gd/ex, up 4% from last week (Brugler500 rating up 4 to 304). Oklahoma ratings were down 6% from the end of January at 34%, as the Brugler500 index was down 10 to 307.
Russian wheat exports for the 2024/25 marketing year are estimated to total 42.2 MMT according to SovEcon, a reduction of 0.6 MMT from the previous estimate. The 2025/26 estimate was seen at 38.9 MMT, up 0.6 MMT from their prior number.
The European Commission has tallied the 2024/25 EU wheat soft wheat exports at 13.65 MMT from July 1 through Sunday, which was down from the 21.31 MMT in the same period last year.
Mar 25 CBOT Wheat is at $5.71, down 8 cents,
May 25 CBOT Wheat is at $5.86 1/4, down 7 1/4 cents,
Mar 25 KCBT Wheat is at $5.91, down 5 1/2 cents,
May 25 KCBT Wheat is at $6.03 3/4, down 5 3/4 cents,
Mar 25 MGEX Wheat is at $6.12 1/4, down 9 1/4 cents,
May 25 MGEX Wheat is at $6.27 1/2, down 8 1/4 cents,
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