The CBOT was mostly higher following the all-important Prospective Plantings and Grain Stocks reports with traders looking to price in emerging factors now that USDA’s thoughts on the acreage situation are known. For corn, the emerging factors are dryness in Brazil that could start to threaten safrinha corn yields and for wheat the factors are smaller U.S. acreage in a year when Russia and Australia are likely to see lower output as well. The soy complex rallied as biofuels emerge as a more pressing issue for the market with the Trump administration looking to boost biofuel infrastructure spending and biofuel lobbying groups meeting with the EPA today. There was a sense that perhaps the most bullish expectations are now behind the mar...
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