Corn Posts Turnaround Tuesday Gains
The corn market bounced back on Tuesday, with contracts closing 2 to 4 cents higher across most nearbys. The national average Cash Corn price from cmdtyView is up 3 cents at $4.50 3/4.
USDA reported a private export sale of 132,000 MT of corn this morning to South Korea for 2024/25 shipment.
CONAB estimates the second corn crop in Brazil at 1.4% complete, lagging the 10.3% pace from last year. ANEC estimates the Brazilian corn export total in January at 3.35 MMT, a reduction of 180,000 MT from their previous estimate. That would be down 25.17% from December and 47.46% below January 2024.
Argentina’s corn crop was trimmed by 1 MMT to 47 MMT by Dr Michael Cordonnier in his latest estimate.
Mar 25 Corn closed at $4.85 1/4, up 3 1/4 cents,
Nearby Cash was $4.50 3/4, up 3 cents,
May 25 Corn closed at $4.96, up 3 3/4 cents,
Dec 25 Corn closed at $4.61, up 2 3/4 cents,
New Crop Cash was $4.31, up 2 1/2 cents,
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