General Comments Today was a government holiday (Veterans Day) in the United States. Banks were also closed, but the markets all traded full sessions. The results of the holiday, however, were:

No USDA weekly export inspections No weekly crop progress report No export sales announcements

These reports will be released Tuesday. This situation left the markets with little to talk about except the remnants of last Friday's USDA reports that were considered slightly more positive than expected for corn and soybeans and slightly bearish for wheat. Today's pattern of trading, however, was different from Friday in that the soy complex was slightly lower much of the session, while corn was the leader with wheat also trading higher earl...