Corn futures rise after large grain sale to Mexico
Updates at 1750 GMT, changes dateline
By Tom Polansek
CHICAGO, Oct 16 (Reuters) -Chicago Board of Trade corn futures rose on Wednesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported the biggest daily export sale of the grain in more than a year.
The market recovered after falling a day earlier to its lowest level in nearly a month, as U.S. farmers are speeding along with their autumn harvests.
The USDA confirmed in a daily reporting system that exporters sold 1.6 million metric tons of U.S. corn to Mexico, including about 1 million metric tons for delivery in the marketing year that ends on Aug. 31, 2025.
The agency reported another 332,000 metric tons of U.S. corn were sold to unknown buyers for delivery by Aug. 31.
Processors in Mexico step up to buy large quantities of U.S. corn to take advantage of weak prices at harvest time, exporters said. The last biggest daily export sale of U.S. corn reported by USDA was 1.7 million metric tons sold to Mexico on Sept. 25, 2023.
"It's cheaper corn than we've had for a while," said Matt Wiegand, commodity broker for FuturesOne. "You've got good value from an end user's perspective."
Most-active corn futures Cv1 were up 5-1/2 cents at $4.06-3/4 a bushel by 12:50 p.m. CDT (1750 GMT), after holding the $4 level during Tuesday's fall to a one-month low.
CBOT soybeans Sv1 fell 8-1/2 cents to $9.82-1/2 a bushel but remained above a 1-1/2 month low set on Tuesday. CBOT wheat Wv1 traded up 7-1/4 cents at $5.86-3/4 a bushel, after setting a three-week low.
Forecasts for beneficial rains in dry crop-growing areas of South America loomed over the corn and soy markets. For wheat, rains in parched regions of top-supplier Russia limited gains, analysts said.
In the U.S., dry weather has accelerated corn and soybean harvesting.
The corn harvest was 47% complete by Sunday, above the five-year average of 39%, and the soybean harvest was 67% finished, above its average of 51%, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.
Reporting by Tom Polansek in Chicago, Gus Trompiz in Paris and Peter Hobson in Canberra; Editing by Alan Barona, Subhranshu Sahu, Jane Merriman and Diane Craft
免责声明: XM Group仅提供在线交易平台的执行服务和访问权限，并允许个人查看和/或使用网站或网站所提供的内容，但无意进行任何更改或扩展，也不会更改或扩展其服务和访问权限。所有访问和使用权限，将受下列条款与条例约束：(i) 条款与条例；(ii) 风险提示；以及(iii) 完整免责声明。请注意，网站所提供的所有讯息，仅限一般资讯用途。此外，XM所有在线交易平台的内容并不构成，也不能被用于任何未经授权的金融市场交易邀约和/或邀请。金融市场交易对于您的投资资本含有重大风险。
所有在线交易平台所发布的资料，仅适用于教育/资讯类用途，不包含也不应被视为用于金融、投资税或交易相关咨询和建议，或是交易价格纪录，或是任何金融商品或非应邀途径的金融相关优惠的交易邀约或邀请。
本网站上由XM和第三方供应商所提供的所有内容，包括意见、新闻、研究、分析、价格、其他资讯和第三方网站链接，皆保持不变，并作为一般市场评论所提供，而非投资性建议。所有在线交易平台所发布的资料，仅适用于教育/资讯类用途，不包含也不应被视为适用于金融、投资税或交易相关咨询和建议，或是交易价格纪录，或是任何金融商品或非应邀途径的金融相关优惠的交易邀约或邀请。请确保您已阅读并完全理解，XM非独立投资研究提示和风险提示相关资讯，更多详情请点击 这里。
