The corn market is trading with 1 to 2 cent losses on Thursday morning, Corn futures felt pressure from soybean spillover weakness on Wednesday, as contracts were down 3 ¼ to 6 ¼ cents at the close. The national average Cash Corn price from cmdtyView was down 6 cents at $4.08 1/4.
The USDA reported a private export sale of 135,000 MT of corn to Columbia on Wednesday morning for 2024/25 shipment.
EIA reported ethanol production totaling 1.103 million barrels per day in the week ending on December 13, a 25,000 bpd increase from the week prior. Ethanol stocks were down 12,000 barrels to 22.636 million barrels as of last Friday. Exports in that week totaled 163,000 barrels per day, a 40,000 bpd increase, as refiner inputs were up 20,000 bpd to 903,000 bpd.
Export Sales data will be released on Thursday morning, with estimates of 0.8 to 1.6 MMT for 2024/25 corn sales, with 0-100,000 MT for 2025/26 sales.
Mar 25 Corn closed at $4.37 1/4, down 6 1/4 cents, currently down 1 cent
Nearby Cash was $4.08 1/4, down 6 cents,
May 25 Corn closed at $4.43 3/4, down 6 1/4 cents, currently down 1 1/4 cents
Jul 25 Corn closed at $4.47 1/4, down 6 cents, currently down 1 1/4 cents
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