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Afternoon Grain Comments 9-16-2026 – Corn had a quiet, low volume day and was down over a nickel until some late buying showed up in the last twenty minutes and pulled it back some. The early yield reports coming out of the Midwest are all over the place, and that isn’t exactly building confidence in a bigger crop, but early reports usually come off the lighter ground anyway. Harvest has slowed some in the western corn belt with all the rain, and while more rain is coming this next week, it shouldn’t hurt yields at this stage of the game. Ethanol production ticked up again and stocks keep piling up to record levels, running better than eleven percent above a year ago. Something isn’t lining up between how much is being made and how much is being used, and some of that may be tied to how those blending credits are propping up margins. In beans, it was a back and forth day as the market clawed back last week’s losses from the government’s big supply report but couldn’t hold onto the contract high. There are enough good yield reports floating around to take some steam out of the bulls, but talk of the upcoming meeting between our leaders and China’s is keeping buyers interested every time the market dips. Wheat keeps finding buyers, with more countries willing to pay up for supplies. Ukraine is planning to plant less winter wheat given how hard it’s been to move their grain, and Pakistan came in today looking for a big load with Russia and Ukraine’s wheat still stopped up. Here at home, the insurance price backing HRW wheat is the highest it’s been since 2023, sitting well over two dollars a bushel above last year’s level. That kind of jump should get some attention when it comes to planting decisions this fall, even though wheat still doesn’t pencil out quite as well as corn or beans most places, except in the pockets where the ground won’t grow much else anyway. At the close today cash corn was down 2 cents, cash wheat was  up 4 cents and cash beans were up 2 cents. Have a great rest of your evening.


Morning Grain Comments 9-16-2026 – The grains opened last evening mostly steady with November soybeans trading double-digits higher during the session while corn traded in a six-cent range on both sides of Tuesday’s closes with the grains ending the night session mixed.  The StoneX Quick Editorial (QE) this morning stated, “soybeans are re-approaching last Friday’s multi-year highs with meal already there; production potential remains high thanks to late rains but every bushel will be needed to meet very strong overall complex demand…”  In world grain trade news, Algeria purchased 18.4 million bushels of milling wheat in their tender for 1/10th, Jordan has tendered again for up to 4.4 million bushels of milling wheat as expected, and Pakistan has tendered for 27.6 million bushels of wheat.  At the end of the night session at 7:45 this morning Kansas City December wheat was 1.25 cents lower, Chicago December corn down 0.5 cent, and Chicago November soybeans were 8 cents higher.  Have a wonderful day.
 

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