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Grain Market Insight
Early Morning Grain Comments 3-18-2026 – The night session was much calmer than we have been seeing with May soybeans to this point, only having a 12-cent trading range on both sides of Tuesday’s close but mostly to the lower side and hitting the session low just a little before 7:00 this morning. Even though the grains are all lower at this point it is no indication they will stay there. The StoneX Quick Editorial (QE) this morning stated, “the grains & oilseeds are quietly lower after a rather light volume overnight session, with front-end soybeans leading the way down as the soy complex continues to see major volatility as the trade attempts to weigh the delayed Trump/Xi meeting and dampened export prospects against the anticipated EPA policy guidance announcement…” The trade volume overnight was slightly above average, so well under what we have been seeing lately with May corn leading the way. In world grain trade news, Jordan purchased 2.2 million bushels of milling wheat in their tender for twice that amount and they announced they are tendering again for up to 4.4 million bushels this week. At about 7:00 this morning May Kansas City wheat was 1.75 cents lower, Chicago May corn was down 2 cents, and Chicago May soybeans were 7.75 cents lower. Have a wonderful day.
Afternoon Grain Comments 3-17-2026 – While we should have morning comments the rest of the week, this is likely the last afternoon grain comments for this week as the afternoon writer is attending meetings out of town. The markets were busy today with all of the grains trading both sides of Monday’s closes with volatile markets. The panic yesterday looks to be over-done, but only time will tell, it often takes longer to recover from a sudden drop than it does to take back a sudden spike. Wheat traded mostly independently from the fall grains and was lower today even with the little cold snap we had yesterday and dry weather over a good portion of the hard red winter wheat belt, but there is rain in the forecast and the world values are not moving much. At the close today cash wheat ended the day 10 cents lower, corn and milo were even with Monday’s closes, and soybeans ended the day 2 cents higher. Have a great evening.
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January 19 Another snow, maybe 1.5 to 2 inches received in Sublette.
January 9, 2026 A snow during the day and into the evening gave us about 5 inches of snow.
December 28 A late morning snowshower lasted about an hour with no accumulation.
November 23 An afternoon thunderstorm gave us 0.25 inch of rain in Sublette.
November 20 & 21 The rain started late morning and into the night and early morning hours of Friday giving us 0.9 inch of rain in Sublette.October 28 Early morning rain showers gave us another 0.3 to 0.4 inch of rain in Sublette.
October 25 A day of light rain gave us about 0.4 inch in Sublette.
October 14 We had a little rain shower in the afternoon of the 13th in Sublette and rain in the early morning hours of Tuesday but only a little rain in the gage, well below 0.1 inch with a foggy morning.
September 19 A rain shower mid-morning gave us 0.1 inch in Sublette.?
September 18 Another early morning rain gave us another 0.4 inch in Sublette.
