GOOD MORNING, Prices are higher this morning on a dry weekend across Brazil, with more of the same this week as we are now in a full-blown weather market. Prices started the PM session on the plus side with beans, corn, and meal printing new contract highs. Argentina's financial and grain markets are closed today but farmers are keeping their beans off the market anyways, which is price supportive. Talk of lower grains in SA and in the Black Sea is support. Some crop watchers are lowering their estimates of both Brazilian and Argentine crops. USDA already lowered estimates for Ukrainian corn and exports. OUTSIDE MARKETS Supportive as new money seems to have arrived in Ags as the bull markets con...
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