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Grain Market Insight
Morning Grain Comments 8-21-2026 – The grain markets were lower most of the night session with corn and wheat trading both sides of yesterday’s closes but soybeans were lower throughout the night session and were double-digits lower during the session as was wheat. The StoneX Quick Editorial (QE) this morning stated, “the most-traded December corn contract took profits over-night after coming within a tick of effective contract highs, though it did build back up to the high side in the early morning hours; the PF Tour has brought in some buyers this week but momentum at $5/bu may be tough to sustain…” StoneX reported “Day four of the Pro Farmer Crop Tour found Iowa corn yields at 194.0 bushels per acre, down from 198.4 bpa last year but above the 191.3 bpa three-year average; soybean pod counts there averaged 1,363 per three-by-three foot square, down from 1,384 LY but above the 1,296 3YA. MN corn aver-aged 199 bpa, down from 202.9 bpa LY but above the 183 bpa 3YA, with soybean pod counts averaging 1,258, up from 1,248 LY and the 1,090 3YA.” In world grain trade news, Sinograin in China will offer for sale 10.6 million bushels of soybeans from state reserves and Tunisia has tendered for 3.1 million bushels of corn. At the end of the night session at 7:45 this morning Kansas City September wheat was 7 cents lower, Chicago September corn was even with Thursday’s close, and Chicago November soybeans were 3.25 cents lower. Have a wonderful day and weekend.
Afternoon Grain Comments 8-19-2026 – ProFarmer wrapped up their Midwest tour today with average samples smaller than USDAs estimates in August for both Illinois and District 1 in Iowa. The raw data show what the StoneX Market Intelligence (MI) dubbed, “quite divergent from the USDA.” Iowa samples showed closer the USDA estimates but the Illinois numbers sent the markets upward seeing new contract highs in the CZ. This differential will soon be settled when PF releases the findings tomorrow or Monday. As of now the MI stated, “this could work into a buy the rumor and sell the fact situation.” ProFarmer results for beans in Illinois and parts of Iowa today showed results nearly equal to last year keeping the bullishness tied to yields down today. China has maintained being the biggest buyer in the export market pushing last week’s total to 1.7mmt where number to meet the targeted February number of is only .75mm/wk. Wheat exports saw a bit of an uptick today but it is unknown if that was related to the Russia-Ukraine war. It seems all buyers today were normal and expected purchasers. Those places without shipments are still weighing out the decision to wait on availability from Russia or pay $100/mt premium over Russian FOB. At the close today Kansas City September wheat closed even, Chicago September corn was up 6 cents while Chicago November beans down a penny. Have a great rest of your evening.
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