It could get exciting, but probably not. Barring any breakthrough buying the market is going to hold steady awaiting next week’s USDA WASDE report. Maybe some short covering, but there are just too many uncertainties for any big bets to be made. And, there is no reason for volumes to get very large as well. But there are still points of notable interest. China will cut tariffs next week on 1,717 tariff lines potentially worth $75 billion in trade. Large soybean purchases are currently going to lower priced Brazil, and there are reports that wheat purchasing by China in the TRQ’s forced open by Washington are going to France. But optimists say that China will begin stocking its summer needs from the U.S. – at least t...
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