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Afternoon Grain Comments 9-18-2026 – Corn spent most of the day in the red but held up better than beans, finding some technical support even as that market took a much sharper hit. Harvest keeps getting slowed down by rain across the Midwest, and reports out of Illinois are showing some yield problems compared to last year, from light test weights to ears that didn't fill out all the way. It is still too early to tell if that is just normal early harvest noise or something bigger showing up in that state's crop. Iowa is looking better than folks first expected, and the southeastern corn belt is putting up record numbers, though that part of the country cannot carry the whole US if the bigger core states run into trouble. Overseas, France's corn condition keeps sliding, down another few points this week to just 23 percent good to excellent, though their harvest is moving fast because the dry weather pushed the crop to mature early. China picked up more corn in August than a year ago, and its purchases this year are running well ahead of last year's pace. Beans took the brunt of the selling today, with funds unloading hard, but the StoneX Market Intelligence (MI) noted it took “a determined buyer” to hold the complex above the technical breakout points underneath it. China is still showing up for beans too, with another flash sale announced this morning on top of a fresh reserve auction on the books for next week. Wheat stayed soft with Russia and Ukraine still no closer to any kind of truce on grain shipments, and dry weather is holding up winter wheat seeding over in Ukraine. Closer to home, rain has been slowing the spring wheat harvest up in the Northern Plains and raising some questions about milling quality on what has already been cut, with Canada dealing with that same worry on their crop. At the close today, cash corn was up 2 cents, cash wheat was down 11 cents, and cash beans were down 17 cents. Have a great weekend.


Morning Grain Comments 9-18-2026 – The grains all had a two-sided night session after opening steady-mixed but soybean selling was the feature with November soybeans trading 16.5 cents lower at one point while it seemed that corn and wheat were trying to resist the negative tone but ended lower also.  The StoneX Quick Editorial (QE) this morning stated, “the meal rally has finally slowed but corn and soybean values remain within shouting distance of move highs; an extremely active Midwest rain pattern continues at least until early next week, with maybe a bit better harvest early window opening for some during the 6-10 day period…”  In world grain trade news, Sinograin in China is planning to offer for sale 20 million bushels of soybeans from their state owned reserves Tuesday, MFG in South Korea purchased 5.3 million bushels of optional origin corn, KFA in South Korea purchased 2.3 million bushels of corn and FLC in South Korea purchased 2.6 million bushels from either South Africa or South America, and NOFI in South Korea purchased 2.6 million bushels of corn in a private trade.  At the end of the night session at 7:45 this morning Kansas City December wheat was 2.5 cents lower, Chicago December corn down a penny, and Chicago November soybeans were 11 cents lower.  Have a wonderful day and weekend.
 

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