What very small creature has the fastest metabolism of any animal, burning 1.5-3.0x its body weight daily?                                                                   
                    

                                                            

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Afternoon Grain Comments 9-23-2026 – Corn took it on the chin today right along with the rest of the grain market as everybody sits and waits to see what comes out of the Trump-Xi meeting. Most of the real negotiating won't happen until tomorrow, and so far China has bought nothing but soybeans, which the market noticed. The StoneX Market Intelligence (MI) said the bullishness that carried corn up to these levels is “starting to wilt,” and prices dipped down to test the bottom of the range they've held the last month before funds stepped in and bought the low. Yield reports keep trickling in. Illinois is coming in worse than last year and worse than the USDA's current estimate, the dry Upper Plains states are about where the USDA has them, and Kentucky and Tennessee are beating their numbers. The USDA starts gathering new data at the end of this week for the October crop report, and the September stocks report due out next week will set this year's carryout and could force a change to how much corn USDA thinks livestock are eating. A lot of folks in the trade think the carryout will end up bigger than USDA's current 1.92 billion bushels, maybe closer to 2.1 billion, without needing a yield change to get there. Wheat was mostly quiet and choppy today, bouncing around on the back and forth talk of a Ukraine-Russia truce. Beans held up better than expected, shaking off a scare from rumors of a diesel export ban that turned out to be false. Xi Jinping lands this afternoon but the real trade talks with Trump won't happen until Thursday, and the big 25 million ton soybean purchase program hangs on how that meeting goes. At the close today, cash corn and cash beans were both down 8 cents and cash wheat was down 9 cents. Have a great rest of your evening.

Morning Grain Comments 9-23-2026 – The grain markets were lower overnight with December corn leaving a half-cent gap while wheat and soybeans had a two-sided session with both of those grains spending time double-digits lower but later bounced off of those lows.  The StoneX Quick Editorial (QE) this morning stated, “corn drove trade volume overnight with wheat leading losses right from the jump, with the most-traded December Chicago contract to a fresh nearly one-month low on hopes for resumption of Black Sea exports…”  In world grain trade news, Tunisia has tendered for 4.6 million bushels of soft milling wheat and 3.4 million bushels of barley and Australia reportedly sold 68,000 tonnes of canola to China.  At the end of the night session at 7:45 this morning Kansas City December wheat was 4 cents lower, Chicago December corn was down 5.5 cents, and Chicago November soybeans were 7 cents lower.  Have a wonderful day.
 

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