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Grain Market Insight
Morning Grain Comments 5-14-2026 – The grain markets opened lower last evening and ended lower this morning with soybeans the leader. Wheat and corn had a two-sided session but ended within a penny of their respective session lows while July soybeans were lower throughout the session leaving a penny gap and hitting it's session low in the last hour of the session. The StoneX Quick Editorial (QE) this morning stated, “soybeans declined sharply this morning amid heavy overall grain trade volume, thanks to an early announcement from the Trump-Xi summit that declared Chinese soy purchases "all taken care of". That's despite analysts widely expecting just that; China is still verbally committed to buying 25 MMT of U.S. beans in each of the next three seasons (or calendar years). And it's almost a billion bushels, more than double their commitments in '25/26, and a number that's going to be tough to fit in future balance sheets...” StoneX reported this morning "the Wheat Quality Council tour found average HRWW yields in southwestern Kansas at 39.3 bushels per acre, down from 53.3 bpa last year and the 43.4 bpa five-year average number." The export sales report this morning showed 27 million bushels of corn (mostly old crop), 3.7 million bushels of old crop soybeans and 3 million bushels new crop soybeans, 4.9 million bushels of old crop wheat and 8.1 million bushels of new crop wheat, and there was net cancellations of 120,000 bushels of milo. The export sales report was pretty disappointing especially for corn and soybeans. At the end of the night session at 7:45 this morning, July Kansas City wheat was 10.75 cents lower, Chicago July corn was down 8 cents, and Chicago July soybeans were 30.5 cents lower. Have a wonderful day.
Afternoon Grain Comments 5-13-2026 – After being limit up yesterday, Kansas City July wheat traded in a 27-cent range, mostly higher, but ended the day lower The ethanol production this week increased by 65 thousand barrels per day over last week to 1,082 thousand barrels per day. Even with ethanol production up, stocks were 1,150,000 barrels less than last week. Corn and soybeans are still under the influence of planting pace and issues with Iran. President Trump being in China to discuss a wide range of topics not the least of which will be agricultural commodities with some thinking we could start hearing news from that meeting tomorrow so we will see. At the close today cash wheat was at the limit 6 cents lower, corn and milo were down a penny, and soybeans ended the day 2 cents higher. We will not have any afternoon comments tomorrow 5-14. Have a great evening.
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May 6 Another misty rainy day with 0.1 inch in the gage in Sublette.
April 26 A misty rain this morning but not much in the gage.
April 10 Rain in Sublette during the early morning hours gave us 0.35 inch of moisture.
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.
